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In reply to the discussion: "We haven’t bled enough. It’s never enough for these sons of bitches." [View all]ND-Dem
(4,571 posts)88. Nixon appointees were 44% of that Court & 1/3 of the votes for Roe were from Nixon
appointees.
To deal with just one of your claims: OSHA wasn't 'started under Johnson'.
On January 23, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson submitted a comprehensive occupational health and safety bill to Congress....the legislation was widely opposed by business...labor leaders...did not fight for the legislation, claiming workers had little interest in the bill.[14] The legislation died in committee.[7]
On April 14, 1969, President Richard Nixon introduced two bills into Congress which would have also protected worker health and safety.[7] The Nixon legislation was much less prescriptive than the Johnson bill, and workplace health and safety regulation would be advisory rather than mandatory.[9] However, Representative James G. O'Hara and Senator Harrison A. Williams introduced a much stricter bill similar to the Johnson legislation of the year before.[7]
Companion legislation introduced in the House also imposed an all-purpose "general duty" clause on the enforcing agency as well. With the stricter approach of the Democratic bill apparently favored by a majority of both chambers, and unions now strongly supporting a bill,[12][13] Republicans introduced a new, competing bill.[7] The compromise bill established the independent research and standard-setting board favored by Nixon, while creating a new enforcement agency. The compromise bill also gave the Department of Labor the power to litigate on the enforcement agency's behalf (as in the Democratic bill).[7] In November 1970, both chambers acted: The House passed the Republican compromise bill, while the Senate passed the stricter Democratic bill (which now included the general duty clause)....
In exchange for a Republican proposal to establish an independent occupational health and safety research agency, Democrats won inclusion of the "general duty" clause and the right for union representatives to accompany a federal inspector during inspections.[14] The conference committee bill passed both chambers on December 17, 1970, and President Nixon signed the bill on December 29, 1970.[7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_Safety_and_Health_Act_(United_States)
On April 14, 1969, President Richard Nixon introduced two bills into Congress which would have also protected worker health and safety.[7] The Nixon legislation was much less prescriptive than the Johnson bill, and workplace health and safety regulation would be advisory rather than mandatory.[9] However, Representative James G. O'Hara and Senator Harrison A. Williams introduced a much stricter bill similar to the Johnson legislation of the year before.[7]
Companion legislation introduced in the House also imposed an all-purpose "general duty" clause on the enforcing agency as well. With the stricter approach of the Democratic bill apparently favored by a majority of both chambers, and unions now strongly supporting a bill,[12][13] Republicans introduced a new, competing bill.[7] The compromise bill established the independent research and standard-setting board favored by Nixon, while creating a new enforcement agency. The compromise bill also gave the Department of Labor the power to litigate on the enforcement agency's behalf (as in the Democratic bill).[7] In November 1970, both chambers acted: The House passed the Republican compromise bill, while the Senate passed the stricter Democratic bill (which now included the general duty clause)....
In exchange for a Republican proposal to establish an independent occupational health and safety research agency, Democrats won inclusion of the "general duty" clause and the right for union representatives to accompany a federal inspector during inspections.[14] The conference committee bill passed both chambers on December 17, 1970, and President Nixon signed the bill on December 29, 1970.[7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational_Safety_and_Health_Act_(United_States)
I won't spend as much time on the others or I'd be here all day, but SSI was not "in the works".
Neither was EPA or NOAA except in the sense that both were mergers of previously existing government programs; but that wasn't all that happened.
http://www2.epa.gov/aboutepa/guardian-origins-epa
http://www.history.noaa.gov/legacy/noaahistory_2.html#introduction
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"We haven’t bled enough. It’s never enough for these sons of bitches." [View all]
phantom power
Mar 2015
OP
Thank you. When I read (I guess some younger posters) write and say Nixon wasn't that bad
OKNancy
Mar 2015
#1
By body count, he is.We hated his guts.The Berrigans, the Chicago Eight, the protestor deaths
ancianita
Mar 2015
#15
he didn't normalize relations with prc; that was a corporate decision. Capital needed
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#58
he was all those things, but his domestic policies were more liberal than reagan's --
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#31
I can't believe you think bill is a liberal. Are you old enough to have been cognizant
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#53
Nixon was a politician. Nixon's policies were more liberal than anything around today.
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#59
strictly speaking, we left vietnam during nixon's watch, ergo he got us out of vietnam.
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#55
Nixon appointees were 44% of that Court & 1/3 of the votes for Roe were from Nixon
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#88
the clintons failed to pass health care. should we then call obamacare 'clintoncare' instead?
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#90
we call it obamacare and say obama passed it. but you won't give nixon credit for
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#92
Nixon was a right-wing criminal and he was in no way, shape, or form a liberal. At all. Period.
NYC Liberal
Mar 2015
#70
tell me which great society programs he gutted. and you're wrong about the SC nominees.
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#84
The fact that he overthrew Allende in Chile, bombed Laos, thwarted Johnson's peace talks,
deutsey
Mar 2015
#79
obviously, and i'm not hailing his accomplishments. i'm mourning our present predicament,
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#81
The failure to prosecute "conservative" traitors has haunted the country since 1865
Doctor_J
Mar 2015
#2
Nutty is saying we should execute almost every Republican President since Eisenhower
Cali_Democrat
Mar 2015
#48
Fine, life in prison, then. I'm not big on the death penalty either. n/t
nomorenomore08
Mar 2015
#37
only for treason, and I'd be fine with life at hard labor. But 18 months at a country
Doctor_J
Mar 2015
#45
Agree, if we need gitmo it's to hold traitorous bastards like Oliver North, Rove, Rice and Cheney.
whereisjustice
Mar 2015
#17
Robert Kennedy would have won the 1968 Presidential Election but was assasinated in the sping of 68.
jalan48
Mar 2015
#10
Kennedy had the momentum and the charisma-Humphrey was as exciting as a washrag
jalan48
Mar 2015
#19
By today's standards, yes, Humphrey would be a Progressive. However, he was a mainstream Democrat in
jalan48
Mar 2015
#25
Richard Nixon never worked for Joe McCarthy. I think you are conflating Nixon's participation in the
KingCharlemagne
Mar 2015
#49
Until we start prosecuting conservative traitors, it will be same shit, different day.
Initech
Mar 2015
#29
Well, we were also called "Conspiracy Theorists" to talk about the Trilateral Commission....
Spitfire of ATJ
Mar 2015
#60
right, "dumdum." your manner of discourse certainly makes *you* a believable source.
ND-Dem
Mar 2015
#99
amazing read. My husband went into Vietnam in June 1968, the worst year of my life.......
secondwind
Mar 2015
#65
K & R. The right wing cheats and lies about everything because their policies can't win the
GoneFishin
Mar 2015
#66