The National Cancer Act of 1971
Law
By: Richard Nixon
Date: December 23, 1971
Source: The National Cancer Act of 1971. U.S. Public Law 92–218. 97th Cong. 1st sess., December 23, 1971. Reprinted in United States Statutes at Large. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972.
About the Author: Richard Milhous Nixon (1913–1994) was born in Yorba Linda, California, and received a law degree in 1937 from Duke University. In 1946, he won election to the U.S. House of Representatives, and in 1952 he joined Dwight D. Eisenhower as candidate for vice president. He won the 1968 presidential election, but on August 8, 1974, in the wake of the Watergate scandal, he became the only U.S. president to resign.
Introduction
The development and widespread use of vaccines and antibiotics during the twentieth century greatly reduced the number of deaths from infectious diseases so...
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