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Richard Nixon: I continue to hold as a basic principle that greater emphasis should be placed on broad funding approaches for Federal…

On the recordAugust 2, 1972
I continue to hold as a basic principle that greater emphasis should be placed on broad funding approaches for Federal grant-in-aid programs, and that narrow categorical grant programs such as Title I should be relied on less as a means of channeling Federal funds to individual institutions.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Message to the Congress Transmitting Annual Report of the National Advisory Council on Extension and Continuing Education.

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