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Richard Nixon: It is heartening, however, that neither the Congress nor the Administration allowed the smoke of legislative skirmishes…

On the recordSeptember 25, 1973
It is heartening, however, that neither the Congress nor the Administration allowed the smoke of legislative skirmishes to obscure the goal we have shared from the first--that of continuing and improving a program which has long been one of the most humanitarian and effective of all Federal grant activities.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Statement on Signing the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.

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