United States Program
Under President Allan Golston, the United States Program has made grants such as the following:
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“The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.”
—Grover Cleveland (1837–1908)
“The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure—but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.”
—Hubert H. Humphrey (1911–1978)
“The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
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—For the City of New Orleans, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)