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From: larryb@bcsaic.UUCP (larry baum)
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Subject: Re: The Presidents   how I feel they rate in history
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Date: Fri, 13-Jun-86 19:47:34 EDT
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In article <783@steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@kbsvax.UUCP (Davidsen) writes:
>
>I think that history will have a better view of Nixon than you guys do.
>You're judging him as a person (and his honesty was virtually
>non-existant), however, he took some major steps to get the country out
>of trouble. When inflation got completely out of hand (I remember
>12%-15% raises that didn't seem to keep up) he got wage and price
>controls. 

Those wage and price controls were completely mishandled.  He instituted
them at the worst possible moment and removed them at another ill-timed
moment.  The result was the horrendous inflation that ruined both Ford
and Carter's presidency (not to mention the effects on the rest of the
world.)