It died under Nixon.
1980: Reagan’s Blunder: Choosing Bush
“t was sick after Nixon but revived and healthy with Reagan. Bush murdered it.
1980: Reagans Blunder: Choosing Bush”
Yep, and it was Bush Jr, by way of Rove who embraced the lobbyists like GROVER NORQUIST and let them write his amnesty and fill his white house with their ISLAM loving cronies.
Reagan was no savior for me - he destroyed the commercial fishing industry - helped put me out of business by his kowtowing to wacko environmentalists. I lost a $100K a year job skippering a brand new tuna seiner which, thanks to his “efforts,” was never built. You keep him.