In 1969, the Nixon administration proposed the “Family Assistance Plan,” which was, in essence, a guaranteed annual income. But it died, in part, because of opposition from California governor Ronald Reagan.
Sad how Reagan and Nixon were on good terms in the early 1960s (Reagan confided his feelings on JFK to him in a 1960
letter, saying “Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx”), and then Nixon adopted the politics of the enemy when he himself became President.