Richard Nixon: “Mr. President, we welcome you very warmly to the White House and to Washington on this occasion, your first visit to the…”

I invite the Governors of the States and of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and other officials at the local level to issue similar proclamations.

I take this occasion once again to urge prompt and final action on the Trade Reform Act.

To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body.

It is only a beginning, always.