US Voting age lowered to 18 years old
07/05/1971 AD amended
Having been ratified by three-fourths of the States (38), the Twenty-sixth Amendment becomes part of the Constitution.
The Administrator of General Services, Robert Kunzig, certified its adoption. President Nixon and Julianne Jones, Joseph W. Loyd Jr., and Paul S. Larimer of the "Young Americans in Concert" also sign the certificate as witnesses. During the signing ceremony, held in the East Room of the White House, Nixon expresses his confidence in the youth of America.
As I meet with this group today, I sense that we can have confidence that America's new voters, America's young generation, will provide what America needs as we approach our 200th birthday, not just strength and not just wealth but the 'Spirit of '76' a spirit of moral courage, a spirit of high idealism in which we believe in the American dream, but in which we realize that the American dream can never be fulfilled until every American has an equal chance to fulfill it in their own life.
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Subjects Who or What amended?
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Richard Nixon (Richard Milhous Nixon) 37th President of the Un...
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26th Amendment to the US Constitution Prohibits the states and...
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