Richard Nixon: “We are trying to take some preventive action and we are getting magnificent cooperation.”

I invite the Governors of the States and of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and other officials at the local level to issue similar proclamations.

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

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.