MonkeyTrots > It was RMN - Richard Millhouse Nixon. He should have been impeached for the Wage and Price Controls -
Correct me if I'm wrong . . .
But the demo-rats handed Nixon a trifecta of budget busting 'initiatives'.
Johnson's Vietnam War. (Won by Nixon.)
Kennedy's 'Man on the Moon'. (Accomplished by Nixon.)
And Johnson's 'War on Poverty'. Lost.
I suspect it was the congress 'spending a peace dividend' on the 'War on Poverty' as much as anything else that drove sky high inflation.
And, it was Ford who declared the war in Vietnam was over . . . and Ford presided over the exodus from Vietnam after N. Vietnam violated the peace agreement Nixon hammered out.
And I found this :
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Published Feb. 16, 2021. In 1975, then-U.S. Sen. Joe Biden blocked aid to South Vietnam and did not allow admittance of Vietnamese refugees into the United States. Former Secretary of Defense ...
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I will agree with you that wage and price controls both should be Un-Constitutional.
But I would like to have what drove Nixon to those things discussed and recognized.
Zim.
Mad Poet Strikes Again.