Richard Nixon: “We have changed the world.”

This, more than anything, is what I hope will be my legacy to you, to our country, as I leave the Presidency.

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

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

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…