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Richard Nixon: “The United States must end this depreciation of research and development in its order of national priorities.”

On the recordOctober 4, 1968
The United States must end this depreciation of research and development in its order of national priorities.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Remarks in New York City: 'The Research Gap: Crisis in American Science and Technology'

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