Richard Nixon actually said...

I have therefore concluded that a number of specialized operational and program functions should be shifted out of the Executive Office into the line departments and agencies of the Government.

Context

Message to the Congress Transmitting Reorganization Plan 1 of 1973 Restructuring the Executive Office of the President.

01/25/1973

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