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Richard Nixon: Children in many instances have not been served, but used--in what all too often has proved a tragically futile effort…

On the recordMarch 16, 1972
Children in many instances have not been served, but used--in what all too often has proved a tragically futile effort to achieve in the schools the kind of multiracial society which the adult community has failed to achieve for itself.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Special Message to the Congress on Equal Educational Opportunities and School Busing.

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