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Richard Nixon: In the name of the 'urban crisis,' for example, the 1960s saw the Federal government increasingly caught in issues of…

On the recordSeptember 10, 1970
In the name of the 'urban crisis,' for example, the 1960s saw the Federal government increasingly caught in issues of municipal housekeeping that are most appropriately the business of a city council.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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Special Message to the Congress on the Administration's Legislative Program.

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