And he talked about that very directly last night in his farewell address.
After his defeat, he gave a farewell address to the Senate.
But what may have been the most poignant farewell address was not supposed to be one.
If Murray thought it might be a farewell address, he apparently did not have much company.
During the last few days he was President, Bush gave his farewell address.
And he did not mention the subject in his farewell address to the legislature on Wednesday.
Even by those standards, however, the Farewell Address was special.
"I've got a lot of my life left here," Fassel said in his farewell address to the news media.
"I would not have killed that woman," he said in his farewell address in 1989.
Eisenhower delivered his farewell address to a national television and radio audience in January 1961.