Richard Nixon actually said...

Ordinarily, of course, Indian land claims are being, and should be, settled by cash award, but this case has exceptional circumstances which the Attorney General has described.

Context

Statement on Signing Executive Order Providing for Return of Certain Lands to the Yakima Indian Reservation.

05/19/1972

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