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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Sep 30, 1973

It is with great pleasure today that I am signing into law the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973, extending and strengthening the mandate of ACTION to serve as a spearhead of our voluntary service programs.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Dec 8, 1971

It would be better to have no legal services corporation than one so irresponsibly structured.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Dec 5, 1971

Our prisons are still colleges of crime, not what they should be--the beginning of a way back to a productive life within the law.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Nov 16, 1971

It is because section 601 of this bill will not in fact alter this policy that I have signed it into law.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Feb 1, 1971

The Commission has informed me that reforms are essential, reforms that cannot be made within existing law.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Dec 25, 1970

This is only one--and not necessarily the most efficient--method of achieving our national health care objectives, and should not be fixed in law.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Apr 26, 1967

We must not lose all we have gained by reckless effort, by rewriting our laws, or by playing for partisan political advantage.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 12, 1966

I renew my pledge to pursue every avenue, use every tool, support any law that holds promise of advancing us in our drive against crime.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 2, 1966

Now there is a law that says Johnny will not die because his toy truck was painted with a poison.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 2, 1966

A great counselor of mine said to me, 'You can take a good law and give it bad administration and it won't work.'

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 28, 1966

I learned just a few days ago while I was already here in Asia that our Congress had acted on this proposal and passed a new law, the first step--the International Education Act.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Oct 11, 1966

Under our old immigration law, even Christopher Columbus would have had a hard time getting into this country.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Sep 22, 1966

Today we have met here in the Cabinet Room to see the President sign into law a new minimum wage.--One dollar and sixty cents an hour.

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