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On the recordApril 11, 1960
I have often stressed the need to increase the functions and responsibilities of the States as a safeguard against excessive centralization of governmental power in this country.
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Eisenhower
Republican · Kansas

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Letter to the Governors Concerning Assumption by the States of Regulatory Functions Relating to Atomic Energy.

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