Richard Nixon: “Nothing is more priceless and more worthy of preservation than the rich array of animal life with which our country has…”

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.

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

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

I have never been a quitter.