Richard Nixon: “I told the doctors--incidentally, I congratulated them all--I said I hope I don't ever have to come out here to have…”

It is regrettable that the Congress has seen fit to add to a bill of such importance to our national security a rider adversely affecting the constitutional separation of powers.

Therefore, I shall resign the Presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

Mistakes, yes. But for personal gain, never.

I am firmly convinced that the record, in its entirety, does not justify the extreme step of impeachment and removal of a President.