Richard Nixon: “It is not unusually alarming.”

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…

Two weeks ago, I vowed to the American people that any appropriations bill substantially above my budget for fiscal year 1975 would be vetoed.

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

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.