Reply #270: "The President proposes, Congress disposes". Civics 101. Read before you opine.

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That same Democratic Congress rejected Nixon's universal health care that he partered with Teddy Kennedy to introduce into Congress. Do you remember that? I was there, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:doc_Tropics/United_States_health_reform_under_Nixon

First raise in minimum wage, first freeze on banks since the depression, the list is too long, along with the tapes, plumbers etc you'll love, the things you don't know will surprise you

http://millercenter.org/academic/americanpresident/keyevents/nixon