Richard Nixon: “You have understood, and have brought others to understand, the full dimensions of the contribution which the United…”

I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration to both the Telegraph Regulations and the Telephone Regulations and give its advice and consent to their ratification with the declarations proposed in the report of the…

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.

I did not realize the extent of the implications which these conversations might now appear to have.

I have done my very best in all the days since to be true to that pledge.