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OCR Page 1 of 70PRESS CONFERENCE NO. 32
of the
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
11:30 A.M. PDT
August 22, 1973
Wednesday
At the Western White House
San Clemente, California
THE PRESIDENT: Ladies and gentlemen, I have
an announcement before going to your questions.
It is with a deep sense of not only official
regret, but personal regret, that I announce the resigna-
tion of Secretary of State William Rogers, effective
September 3rd. A letter, which will be released to the
press after this conference, will indicate my appraisal
of his work as Secretary of State.
I will simply say at this time that he wanted
to leave at the conclusion of the first four years. He
agreed to stay on because we had some enormously important
problems coming up, including the negotiations which
resulted in the end of the war in Vietnam, the Soviet
summit, the European Security Conference, as well as in
other areas -- Latin America, and in Asia -- where the
Secretary of State, as you know, has been quite busy
over these past eight months.
As he returns to private life, we will not
only miss him in terms of his official service, but
I shall particularly miss him because of his having
been, through the years, a very close personal friend
and advisor.
That personal friendship and advice, however,
I hope still to have the benefit of, and I know that
I will.
As his successor, I shall nominate, and send
to the Senate for confirmation, the name of Dr. Henry
Kissinger. Dr. Kissinger will become Secretary of State,
assume the duties of the office, after he is confirmed by
the Senate. I trust the Senate will move expeditiously
on the confirmation hearings because there are a number
of matters of very great importance that are coming up.
There are, for example, some matters that might
even involve some foreign travel by Dr. Kissinger that
will have to be delayed in the event that the Senate
hearings are delayed.
Dr. Kissinger's qualifications for this post,
I think, are well known by all of you ladies and gentlemen,
as well as those looking to us and listening to us on
television and radio.
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