Richard Nixon actually said...

If Congress believes that price and wage controls are needed in today's economy, despite all the evident disadvantages and against my strong...

It is an arbitrary limit which could interfere at some future time with the effective conduct of defense production activities.

I urge the Congress to take prompt action, as I have done, to put the public interest ahead of the special interests.

I request the Congress to enact an amendment as soon as the House returns from its recess to place the functions of the Board in the executi...