Richard Nixon actually said...

For the first time in a generation, no American is being drafted into the Armed Forces.

Radio Address About a Special Message to the Congress on National Legislative Goals.

09/08/1973

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We cannot in good conscience defer this action any longer.

The time has come for Federal action.

I am requesting prompt action by the Congress on several reforms in our unemployment insurance system.

That is why I am now submitting to the Congress the same benefit reform recommendation that I urged the States to adopt in 1969.