Campaign Statement in Illinois.
11/02/1972
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If bills come to my desk calling for excessive spending which threatens the Federal budget, I will veto them.
This is the anti-inflationary method I use in designing the Federal budget.
In my judgment, the public interest requires that Mr. Patterson be exempted from such mandatory retirement.
I believe that all of us, the President and the Congress, have a clear duty to protect the national interest in general prosperity--and ther...