Richard Nixon: “We are different people with different languages and different backgrounds, but in a sense we are one people--one people…”

It is regrettable that the Congress has seen fit to add to a bill of such importance to our national security a rider adversely affecting the constitutional separation of powers.

I invite the Governors of the States and of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and other officials at the local level to issue similar proclamations.

In keeping Federal spending under control, we do not intend, of course, to single out only farm or environmental programs.

Two weeks ago, I vowed to the American people that any appropriations bill substantially above my budget for fiscal year 1975 would be vetoed.