what I said to this Chamber was that the campaign finance laws in 1974 were designed to cut the unlimited sums that in particular the CREEP organization of the Nixon administration raised and to stop the shakedown of businesses that took place. And that shakedown stopped for a number of years until both parties designed a new system called soft money that just brought us back to the Nixon era.
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