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Richard Nixon: “In the first 9 months of this year, for example, the coal mine fatality rate dropped by approximately 25 percent from…”

On the recordOctober 25, 1972
In the first 9 months of this year, for example, the coal mine fatality rate dropped by approximately 25 percent from the rate for the same period of 1971.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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