2 Responses to “Nixon 51-30 PU Tide Watch – White / White”

1. lon says:

   November 16, 2010 at 11:50 pm

   Periodically, the issue of federalism, that is, the role of the Federal Government vis-à-vis the role of the states, is the subject of attention across the country. So it is again. Forty years ago, President Nixon tried to rebalance the authority between the Federal Government and the states with his “New Federalism.” Under this “New Federalism,” the Federal Government continued to take our money, but some of it was sent by the Feds to the states through “block grants.” Thirty years ago, President Reagan appointed the members of a Presidential Advisory Committee on Federalism and the Coordinating Task Force on Federalism. There was talk of reallocating programs between the Feds and the states. For example, the Feds would assume all responsibility for Medicaid while the states assumed all responsibility for welfare and food stamps. There was talk of sending Federal revenues in block form to the states for these purposes. Federalism isn’t all about money — as illustrated currently by…
2. goosen says:

   November 25, 2010 at 12:58 am

   –Nixon was the first president to visit all fifty states, as well as the first to visit the Soviet Union. While in the Soviet Union, he engaged in intense negotiations with his Soviet counterpart, Leonid Brezhnev. Out of this "summit" meeting came agreements for increased trade and two landmark arms control treaties. SALT (named for the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks underway since 1969) froze each country's arsenal of intercontinental missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty banned the development of systems designed to intercept incoming missiles, so that neither side would be tempted to attack the other without fearing devastating retaliation. Nixon and Brezhnev proclaimed a new era of "peaceful coexistence," in which "detente" (cooperation) would replace the hostility of the Cold War.

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