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Richard Nixon: The last thing we want...is to give to Federal bureaucrats the power to pay our teachers and then the right to tell them…

On the recordOctober 2, 1960
The last thing we want...is to give to Federal bureaucrats the power to pay our teachers and then the right to tell them what to teach.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Partial Transcript of Remarks by the Vice President, Capitol Square, Richmond, VA

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