[Senator_Blutarski]

It died under Nixon.

How so? Please explain.

[PIF]

Just read the history of the time - it is self explanatory - really, honest.

[VerySadAmerican]

Nixon historian Joan Hoff pointed out in Reevaluating Richard Nixon: His Domestic Achievements:

“From the first to the last budget for which the Nixon administration was responsible; that is, from 1970 through 1975 spending on all human resource programs exceeded spending for defense for the first time since the Second World War. Funding for social welfare services under Nixon grew from $55 billion in 1970 to almost $132 billion in 1975 making him (not President Johnson) the “last of the big spenders” on domestic programs. This represented an increase from 28% of all federal outlays to 40.4%, compared to a decrease in defense spending in the same period from 40% of all federal outlays (or $78.6 billion) to 26.2% (or $85.6 billion).”

It was Nixon who announced on February 6, 1974: “Comprehensive health insurance is an idea whose time has come in America…There has long been a need to assure every American financial access to high quality health care. As medical costs go up, that need grows more pressing….Indeed, let us act sensibly. And let us act now–in 1974–to assure all Americans financial access to high quality medical care.”

EPA

OSHA

First president to create a deficit

Got us off the gold standard

[aligncare]

<> Federal agencies grew under Richard Nixon, for example, it was under Nixon that the EPA was established. He signed it into law I believe in 1970.