Richard Nixon: “I wish you good luck and Godspeed.”

This, more than anything, is what I hope will be my legacy to you, to our country, as I leave the Presidency.

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 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…

Our military forces deter potential aggressors and, together with those of our allies, serve to assure the continued security of the free world.