Richard Nixon: “All of these new immigrants are going to make it harder for us to get jobs, it is going to make it more difficult for us…”

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

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

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 have done my very best in all the days since to be true to that pledge.