This question is incomplete because it lacks the passage containing President Nixon's Speech.
Complete Question
"In passing this office to the Vice President, I also do so with the profound sense of the weight of responsibility that will fall on his shoulders tomorrow and, therefore, of the understanding, the patience, the cooperation he will need from all Americans.
As he assumes that responsibility, he will deserve the help and the support of all of us. As we look to the future, the first essential is to begin healing the wounds of this Nation, to put the bitterness and divisions of the recent past behind us and to rediscover those shared ideals that lie at the heart of our strength and unity as a great and as a free people.
By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of that process of healing which is so desperately needed in America."
—President Richard Nixon
August 8, 1974
What does President Nixon suggest is the first challenge facing the new president?
• regaining the support of Congress
• healing the divisions in the country
• withstanding the tremendous weight of responsibility he will have to bear
Answer:
• healing the divisions in the country
Explanation:
The passage above was the resignation speech of the 37th President of the United States, President Richard Nixon.
President Richard Nixon resigned from office due to the scandal that was referred to as the Watergate Scandal.
In his resignation speech were a section was given to us in the question, President Richard Nixon said that the new president would be needing the collective support of people of the United States as well as the United States Congress because the first responsibility for the new president was to heal the wounds i.e heal the divisions that was present in the United States.
