04/09/1976
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
"I urge the Congress to take the necessary actions I have proposed in order to achieve real economies in the national defense program."
"I am advising the Congress that failure to take the necessary remedial actions will result in a revised 1977 estimate for National Defense of $116.3 billion."
"Provisions such as Section 612 would add arbitrarily and unnecessarily to the tax burden of the American people."
"My total fiscal year 1977 Budget request for national defense is $114.9 billion in budget authority."