For over one hundred years, some of our country\u27s most dedicatedlawyers have struggled to provide legal services to poor people.The road has not been an easy one. Richard Nixon vetoed alegal services bill over the issue of presidential appointments, thensigned the Legal Services Corporation Act just before resigning.Nixon\u27s Vice-President, Spiro Agnew, was a vocal opponent of federally-funded legal services. Ronald Reagan submitted eight consecutivebudgets seeking to eliminate all federal funding for theLegal Services Corporation ( LSC ). Simultaneously, he appointeda hostile LSC board of directors. Bill Clinton\u27s election,however, brought new hope to advocates. Hillary Clinton is a formerpresident of the LSC Board. The early Clinton budgets includedan increase in LSC funding, but they were countereddramatically by the severe cuts and restrictions imposed by the1994 Republican-controlled Congress
