Richard Nixon: “The legislation recommended would be one of the first new authorities for the Environmental Protection Agency.”

A strong America is essential to maintaining world peace.

We think that when we suffer a defeat that all is ended.

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 do hereby proclaim October 29, 1974, as National Student Government Day.