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Richard Nixon: “The sole interest to which each board member must be beholden is the public interest.”

On the recordDecember 8, 1971
The sole interest to which each board member must be beholden is the public interest.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Veto of the Economic Opportunity Amendments of 1971

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