Richard Nixon: “The tasks of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency belong to the most important of my administration.”

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 have never been a quitter.

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

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.