Richard Nixon actually said...

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.

Context

Veto of the Agriculture-Environmental and Consumer Protection Appropriation Bill.

08/07/1974

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