Richard Nixon: “I urge the panel members to keep two considerations in mind.”

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.

May God's grace be with you in all the days ahead.

A strong America is essential to maintaining world peace.

It is regrettable that the Congress has seen fit to add to a bill of such importance to our national security a rider adversely affecting the constitutional separation of powers.