Richard Nixon actually said...

The revitalization of rural America is one of the important objectives of my administration.

The recent trend of diminishing population and diminishing prosperity in many rural areas must be actively resisted.

We should continue to rely primarily on private lenders to meet the general credit needs of commercial agriculture.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Act of August 28, 1958, 72 Stat. 972, and as President of the United States, it is ordered th...