Richard Nixon actually said...

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.

Context

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

09/10/1970

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