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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Oct 29, 1972

Medicare coverage will be extended to cover 100 percent and not just 80 percent of home health services.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Oct 27, 1972

I will instruct the Secretary of Commerce to carry out this statute in a way which focuses Federal efforts on the adequacy of State processes rather than to become involved in the merits of particular land use decisions.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Apr 26, 1972

It is my hope that other governments will also take steps to strengthen the work of the International Whaling Commission.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Jan 25, 1972

The Council shall develop and recommend to the President policies, mechanisms and procedures to achieve and maintain stability of prices and costs in a growing economy.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Dec 29, 1971

To require the general taxpayer to bear the costs of this program means a sharp departure from the previous practice under which employer taxes have been used to finance such aid.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Dec 29, 1971

In signing this act, however, I would emphasize that I endorse it only as a temporary expedient and not as the best or soundest method of helping the unemployed nor as a precedent for future legislation.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Dec 7, 1971

Our efforts to reform and expand our income maintenance systems must now be complemented by an effort to reform and expand private retirement programs.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Jan 3, 1971

I believe that barring compelling reasons for divergence, a generally uniform policy for all Federal retirement programs is desirable, equitable and just.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Dec 30, 1966

I think the country knows--and I would like to repeat again--that it is the policy of this Government to bomb only military targets.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Mar 13, 1966

As we plan for the larger program, I believe we should do better than we have in rehabilitating persons who are now on our public welfare rolls.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 24, 1964

We have a social security system that will give us a modicum of income when we reach our maturity and are no longer able to stay in the labor market.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 21, 1964

Membership in Executive Reserve Units shall be subject to the following: Subject to the provisions of this order, particularly paragraph (4) of this section, an individual who on the date of this order was a member of an Executive Reserve Unit under Executive Order No. 10660 may continue to serve therein without further designation.

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Eddie Johnson
@eddiejohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 21, 1964

Activities of any person by reason of his continuance, designation, or redesignation as an Executive Reservist under this order shall not include acting or advising on any matter pending before any department or agency but shall be limited to receiving training for mobilization assignments under the Reserve program.

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Joseph Kennedy
@josephkennedy· Democratic · MA· Mar 5, 1963

Now, this idea that there are three services and therefore you can save $3 billion by cutting $1 billion out of each and at the same time when a good many members make speeches which are very militant, which would suggest that the solution to our problems can be best obtained by war actions or warlike actions, it doesn't seem to me that we ought to be cutting our defenses at this time.

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