Richard Nixon actually said...

I propose that $6 billion in Federal funds be authorized and appropriated over the next three years to provide the full Federal share of a $12 billion program of waste treatment facilities.

Context

Special Message to the Congress Proposing the 1971 Environmental Program

02/07/1971

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