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A: Good evening, my fellow Americans. Three days from
now, after a half-century of service of our country, I shall
lay down the responsibilities of office as, in a traditional
and solemn ceremony, the authority of the Presidency is
vested in my successor. This evening I come to you with a
message of leave-taking and farewell, and to share a few
final thoughts with you, my countrymen.
A: Like every other citizen, I wish the new President, and
all who will labor with him, Godspeed. I pray that the
coming years will be blessed with peace and prosperity for
all.
A: Our people expect their President and the Congress to
find essential agreement on questions of great importance,
the wise resolution of which will better shape the future of
our great nation. My own relations with Congress began
on a remote and tenuous basis when, long ago, a member
of the Senate appointed me to West Point. I then had the
pleasure of building more intimate relationship with
Congress during the war and immediate post-war period.
Finally, we have progressed to the mutually interdependent
relationship we’ve had during these past eight years.