He remained in his hometown and attended Whittier College with his expenses covered by a bequest from his maternal grandfather. As one policy initiative, Nixon called for more money for sickle-cell research, treatment, and education in February 1971 and signed the National Sickle Cell Anemia Control Act on May 16, 1972. While Nixon called for increased spending on such high-profile items as sickle-cell disease and for a War on Cancer, at the same time he sought to reduce overall spending at the National Institutes of Health. Mea culpa. But let's get on to my achievements.
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