Richard Nixon: “It is hard to realize that this piece of legislation will not come into fulfillment or culmination until the year 1976.”

I do hereby proclaim October 29, 1974, as National Student Government Day.

I have never been a quitter.

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

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.