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On the recordSeptember 22, 1960
I believe our present congressional deadlock on the subject has resulted from an insistence on the one hand that we move toward more normal conditions at a speed and by a means that would have failed adequately to protect farmer income in the period of transition.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Speech by the Vice President of the United States at the 1960 Soil Conservation Field Days, Sioux Falls, SD

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