With reduced spending, deficits, debt and tax rates, the plan would help produce millions of new jobs, and the restoration of traditional American prosperity.

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Working with the Army Corps of Engineers, he undertook an 18-month river-restoration project, the largest such privately funded endeavor in American history.

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The results of the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries, too, indicate a growing awareness that restoration of prosperity requires an increase in economic freedom for the American people.

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Many longstanding Native American legal claims against the United States have been resolved, which will help accelerate the restoration of trust in our relationships with tribal nations.

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