Richard Nixon: “I also ask that each of you, as the head of a department or agency, provide your personal leadership in assuring the…”

A strong America is essential to maintaining world peace.

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.