Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 3669003" data-attributes="member: 1246">August 8, 1974 In an evening televised address, President <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/richard-m-nixon" target="_blank">Richard M. Nixon</a> announces his intention to become the first president in American history to resign. With impeachment proceedings underway against him for his involvement in the <a href="http://www.history.com/topics/watergate" target="_blank">Watergate</a> affair, Nixon was finally bowing to pressure from the public and Congress to leave the <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/white-house" target="_blank">White House</a>. “By taking this action,” he said in a solemn address from the Oval Office, “I hope that I will have hastened the start of the process of healing which is so desperately needed in America.”</blockquote>