Richard Nixon: “The national rate of serious crime is now heading down for the first time in 17 years, and they want that downward…”

To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body.

I take this occasion once again to urge prompt and final action on the Trade Reform Act.

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.

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.