He reinforced his posture with a public message to the military on September 19, 1970, during the celebrations of Army day and in the midst of the campaign to obtain congressional ratification to Allende's marginal electoral victory, saying that "there were no options that would invite the armed forces to undo what the politicians had wrought in Chile".
He asserted his commitment to the political outcomes achieved by politicians in Chile, emphasizing that any attempt by the military to overturn those results would be impossible.