[Michael.SF.]

Do you think that if Nixon had known how the Democrats would abuse the EPA, for their own purpose, he would have supported it's creation?

[pierrem15]

Do you think that if Nixon had known how the Democrats would abuse the EPA, for their own purpose, he would have supported it's creation?

I think there was a widely shared perception of the glories of the administrative state in the generation coming out of WWII combined with an incredible naivete about how easily it could be politicized. The Warren Court ought to have alerted everyone.