Richard Nixon: “The public interest is generally better served by the free play of competitive forces than by the imposition of rigid…”

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 am firmly convinced that the record, in its entirety, does not justify the extreme step of impeachment and removal of a President.

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

It is only a beginning, always.