Richard Nixon: “This report covers developments during the twelve months ending December 31, 1971.”

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 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 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…