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Richard Nixon: “The time has come to break decisively with the past and to create the conditions for a new era in which the Indian…”

On the recordJuly 7, 1970
The time has come to break decisively with the past and to create the conditions for a new era in which the Indian future is determined by Indian acts and Indian decisions.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Special Message to the Congress on Indian Affairs

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