[Fiji Hill]

I loved that song because I saw it as a protest against the 55 mph speed limit that President Nixon had imposed on the country to “save energy.” In my view, getting rid of it was President Clinton’s greatest accomplishment.

[klgator]

I loved that song because I saw it as a protest against the 55 mph speed limit that President Nixon had imposed on the country to “save energy.” In my view, getting rid of it was President Clinton’s greatest accomplishment.

According to Noam Chomsky, Nixon was the last liberal President.

[shotgun]

I think you mean Jimmy Carter. He mandated that all states lower their speed limit on Interstate freeways to 55mph or lose all federal funding.

[BobL]

“I loved that song because I saw it as a protest against the 55 mph speed limit that President Nixon had imposed on the country to “save energy.” In my view, getting rid of it was President Clinton’s greatest accomplishment.”

Except he didn’t do it. Reagan managed to get it raised to 65, but only well outside of city limits, and with big red flags (actually made of steel) to tell you to slow back down to 55.

Clinton, of all people, finally put the knife to the national speed limit, after the Republican Congress handed him a bill doing just that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maximum_Speed_Law