Nixon announced scientists would switch from weapon research to cancer healing.

Evidence

“Where we have previously had scientists—some of the best people that we could possibly find in the United States—working on weapons of war, we now have scientists devoting their efforts toward saving life,” President Nixon said. — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 1146

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Nicholson Baker, Baseless- My Search for Secrets in the…, 1146