Richard Nixon: “Although he will no longer walk among us, Lyndon Johnson's influence on our times, which often seemed so much larger…”

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

I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration to both the Telegraph Regulations and the Telephone Regulations and give its advice and consent to their ratification with the declarations proposed in the report of the…

May God's grace be with you in all the days ahead.

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