Richard Nixon: “I also do appoint Monday, March 31, 1969 to be a National Day of Mourning throughout the United States.”

This was a serious act of omission for which I take full responsibility and which I deeply regret.

I recommend that the Senate give early and favorable consideration to both the Telegraph Regulations and the Telephone Regulations and give its advice and consent to their ratification with the declarations proposed in the report of the…

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.

Further study is essential if we are to avoid ineffective Federal spending for these purposes.