Richard Nixon: “I should like to respond to your remarks in both personal terms and then also in the broader terms that you have used in…”

A strong America is essential to maintaining world peace.

It is essential that we move ahead to revitalize the global trading system through multilateral negotiations.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as president, I must put the interests of America first. Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon…

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