Richard Nixon: “We must increase our spending for defense in order to carry out the Nation's strategy for peace.”

This, more than anything, is what I hope will be my legacy to you, to our country, as I leave the Presidency.

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…

We think that when we suffer a defeat that all is ended.

I did not realize the extent of the implications which these conversations might now appear to have.