Richard Nixon: “There is no place for apathy in an America facing the momentous challenges and opportunities of the era of the 1970s.”

This country needs good farmers, good businessmen, good plumbers, good carpenters.

I firmly believe that our current fiscal situation demands national unanimity on the issues of a larger concern.

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.