Re: OT - Started the EPA, Food Stamps, Wage and Price Controls, Automatic Social Security Cost of Living Increases




"Art" <begunaNOSPAMPLEASE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Richard Nixon was responsible for all of those inititiatives.
>
Don't think so! Wage and Price controls were used during WWII and probably
during the depression years.


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