06/24/1976
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"I also pledge that I will work with the Congress to enact a new law that will meet many of the objections of the current system."
"I share many of those concerns, and I share in a desire to reform and improve upon the current law."
"The Commission has become the chief instrument for achieving clean Federal elections in 1976."
"You are the phone callers, you are the door knockers, you are the people that do all the hard work."