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Richard Nixon: It offers new fairness to the working poor, by helping them to lift themselves out of poverty.

On the recordApril 15, 1970
It offers new fairness to the working poor, by helping them to lift themselves out of poverty.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Statement About House Approval of the Family Assistance Act of 1970

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