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Richard Nixon: It was for that reason that on May 11, I proposed legislation to establish the cancer cure program that would be…

On the recordJuly 6, 1971
It was for that reason that on May 11, I proposed legislation to establish the cancer cure program that would be independently budgeted, with its Director responsible directly to the President.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

Statement Following Senate Approval of the Conquest of Cancer Bill.

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