Richard Nixon: “President Nixon pledged his country's assistance to this end.”

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.

This was a serious act of omission for which I take full responsibility and which I deeply regret.

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.