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During the term of President Lyndon Baines Johnson, the Committee on Population and Family Planning called for the creation of a Commission. The Committee was terminated January 7, 1969, and the Nixon Administration began the work of creating the Commission on Population Growth and the American Future, which was enacted March 16, 1970 (S. 2701; PL 91-213; 84 Stat. 67).
The Commission's mission was to study the impact of population growth in the United States and the rest of the world and to try to determine what to expect in population growth, where the growth will move, and how to deal with it, especially in terms of those areas where there were not enough resources to adequately sustain growth. John D. Rockefeller, III was appointed Commission Chairman.
The records in this file are primarily memorandums and letters dealing with the plans for the Commission, its duties, the selection of the Chairman and its members, and testimony before Congress on behalf of establishing such a Commission. Correspondents include Daniel P. Moynihan, Checker Finn, members of the White House Staff, the public, members of Congress, and Planned Parenthood chapters.
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