Richard Nixon: “He must be strong, he must be competent, he must be efficient, he must be fair.”

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.

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…

And as I leave, let me say, that is an example I think all of us should remember.

To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body.