Richard Nixon actually said...

I direct you to make no commitments at this time which will lead to spending in excess of the 1970 outlay ceiling which the Director of the Bureau of the Budget communicated to you at my direction.

Context

Memorandum on Expenditures by Government Departments and Agencies

11/13/1969

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