Richard Nixon: “Drug abuse, I have said recently, is America's public enemy number…”

On the recordJune 21, 1971

Drug abuse, I have said recently, is America's public enemy number one.

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Republican · California

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Remarks to the American Medical Association's House of Delegates Meeting in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

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