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

I AM WITHHOLDING my signature from S. 3418, a bill designed to promote training in family medicine.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Dec 21, 1970

I AM TODAY signing H.R. 17923, the Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1971, even though it adds $342.5 million in budget authority and a similar amount in budget outlays to the amounts I requested for fiscal…

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Dec 21, 1970

Immediate action on this important legislation is essential if we are to continue this program beyond January 1, 1971.

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Richard Nixon
@richardnixon· Republican · CA· Dec 9, 1970

TO STOP a crippling national railroad strike, which would work severe hardship on millions of Americans and impede an orderly economic expansion, I am signing this bill.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Feb 22, 1968

This new Act will improve our foreign relations and promote a better understanding of America throughout the world.

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

It looks easy now, but we spent more than 20 years in the Congress battling for this breakthrough.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Jan 16, 1967

One of the handicaps we have is the appropriation bills came the latter part of the year.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 5, 1966

On October 15, I signed the Department of Transportation bill, which established that Department.

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

The second bill we will sign today will enhance the quality of life for every American-the Clean Water Restoration Act will give us the power to rescue the once clear waters of our streams and our rivers and our lakes from the growing…

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 1, 1966

I AM TODAY signing a bill which marks another advance in this Nation's commitment to eliminate poverty and famine and disease throughout the world.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 1, 1966

The second is the Fish Protein Concentrate Act, which will mean so much to your people.

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Lyndon Johnson
@lyndonjohnson· Democratic · TX· Nov 1, 1966

I think your grandchildren will read in their history books that the 89th Congress passed more legislation for the greatest good for the greatest number than any Congress in the history of this Nation.

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