Originally posted by QueensburyRules
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Nixon believed he needed an LBJ (1964) level landslide to get his agenda passed. He had a 50 State strategy going and almost pulled it off.
Even commuting Hoffa's sentence was part of that strategy. A Christmas present to Organized labor. Christmas week 1971. Peeling away just a couple of % points from the ********ic-Labor vote was enough to put him over the top in NY and Penn, States he couldn't carry in 1968.
Too bad he self-destructed. He and Moynihan were going to nationalize our Healthcare system. We wouldn't be having the problem we are having today. Too bad that was lost.
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