Richard Nixon: “As a student of history I was fascinated, as I am sure all of you were, by the remarks of John Quincy Adams and also of…”

It is regrettable that the Congress has seen fit to add to a bill of such importance to our national security a rider adversely affecting the constitutional separation of powers.

I do hereby proclaim October 29, 1974, as National Student Government Day.

Mistakes, yes. But for personal gain, never.

I have done my very best in all the days since to be true to that pledge.