Richard Nixon actually said...

I think that one of the most exciting and challenging problems that the next President of the United States will have is to make an asset out of the ability of our farmers to be the most productive farmers that civilization has ever known.

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Speech of Vice President Nixon, Television Appearance, WHO-TV, Des Moines, IA

09/15/1960

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