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Bi partisan praise amid auto maker pressure in 1968
In 1968 the Justice Department probed how auto makers delayed anti pollution devices, revealing a coordinated industry effort to block standards. The case exposed immense Detroit influence, but White House figures like Johnson and Attorney General Ramsey Clark navigated pressure to keep reforms tentative.
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