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On the recordSeptember 26, 1960
We say the way to progress is not to rely on an all-powerful Federal Government, to weaken the individual, to weaken the State, but to tap all the resources of America.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Remarks by the Vice President, W. C. Handy Park, Memphis, TN

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