Richard Nixon: “We are prepared to seek not only in Paris but in any other forum a political settlement of this war.”

This, more than anything, is what I hope will be my legacy to you, to our country, as I leave the Presidency.

I firmly believe that our current fiscal situation demands national unanimity on the issues of a larger concern.

I have done my very best in all the days since to be true to that pledge.

I have concluded that because of the Watergate matter, I might not have the support of the Congress that I would consider necessary to back the very difficult decisions and carry out the duties of this office in the way the interests of…