Richard Nixon: “I simply want to say I am proud of those three men up there.”

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 have always tried to do what was best for the Nation.

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

It is only a beginning, always.