Richard Nixon: “I hope and trust that I will contribute to strengthening rather than weakening this principle for the future”

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

Mistakes, yes. But for personal gain, never.

I did not realize the extent of the implications which these conversations might now appear to have.

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…