Richard Nixon actually said...

I urge that this time we not wait for the next emergency, but rather join together in acting upon it now.

So nothing has been done, and emergency has followed emergency, at incalculable cost to millions of innocent bystanders and to the nation it...

I believe we must face up to this problem, and face up to it now, before events overtake us and while reasoned consideration is still possib...

It is to this end that I urge prompt and favorable consideration of this landmark legislation.