Richard Nixon actually said...

I urge the Congress to act early in the next session to relax the charter prohibition uniformly with respect to both the Federal-Aid Highway program and the Urban Mass Transportation program.

Context

Memorandum of Disapproval of a Bill To Amend the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964

01/03/1974

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