Racial discrimination and prejudice is more harmful to the United States in the world area than any other single factor. Vice President Richard M. Nixon said here yesterday at a conference of Southern California social welfare leaders and the President’s Committee on Government Contracts which was set up to outlaw bias in employment in the government and in firms contracting or subcontracting government orders.
The Vice President, who is also chairman of the President’s Committee, insisted that racial and religious intolerance must be ended because of its huge “moral and economic” cost to Americans. Mr. Nixon added that equal opportunity for all citizens regardless of race, color or creed must come about “because it is right” and not merely necessary.
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