Richard Nixon actually said...

This new unemployment insurance law that I sign today is also one more bulwark against the possibility of any future downturn, and strong evidence that this Nation will not permit the burden of the fight against the high cost of living to fall on the American workingman.

Context

Statement on Signing the Employment Security Amendments of 1970.

08/09/1970

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