What was President Richard Nixon's New Federalism Program intended to accomplish?

Nixon's New Federalism was focused on giving more power to the state governments.

Nixon believed that ever since the Great Deal, implemented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the federal government had too much control over the states and how they spent their money. In his New Federalism program, Nixon advocated for a smaller federal government by giving state governments grants of money and letting them decide how to use it.