The President's News Conference
08/03/1971
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We want peace--peace with honor, peace fair to all, and a peace that will last.
The goal of all these proposals is to make government responsive again to the voice of the average citizen.
It represents a new Declaration of Independence for State and local government.
I was determined to end the logjam of power in an ever centralizing Washington bureaucracy and to strengthen government at the grass roots.