Richard Nixon actually said...

The United States is making every effort to bring this conflict to a very swift and honorable conclusion, measured in days not weeks.

Special Message to the Congress Requesting Emergency Security Assistance Funding for Israel and Cambodia

10/18/1973

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That ceiling on expenditures should apply equally to the Congress and to the executive branch.

Our success in reducing our involvement in Vietnam by 480,000 men before May 1, 1972, and comparable materiel reductions will help enable us...

I strongly urge the Congress to respect the full-employment spending guideline this year, just as business and labor are expected to respect...

We urgently need an absolute limit on Government spending.