01/02/1980
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"I know how important rural America is to our country."
"This is indeed a rural program of comprehensive development, initiated and controlled and forged at the grassroots level."
"We hope that the resumed talks will be conducted on a serious, sustained and productive basis and will lead to a just and lasting settlement of all outstanding issues."
"Today I am pleased to sign the Rural Development Policy Act of 1980, which places into law many of the reforms that were developed by this rural policy."