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This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in the history of governments-a power concentration which defies the experience of mankind with the temptation of power to corrupt.

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Strom Thurmond
Age: 100 †
Born: 1902
Born: December 5
Died: 2003
Died: June 26
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