Richard Nixon: “The gravest responsibility which I bear as President of the United States is for the security of the Nation.”

Further study is essential if we are to avoid ineffective Federal spending for these purposes.

This legislation exceeds my budgetary recommendations by such a large amount--some $540 million--that it presents a clear and distinct threat to our fight against inflation and cannot be accepted.

We think that when we suffer a defeat that all is ended.

To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body.