Apart from TR, as historian James Patterson pointed out, “Nixon was easily the most liberal Republican President in the twentieth century.”39 He kept Great Society programs more or less intact; raised social spending; sponsored the Environmental Protection Agency, the Clean Air Act, the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and the National Endowment for Arts and for the Humanities; signed Title IX, which ended sex discrimination in education; opined that “I am now a Keynesian in economics”;40 and even proposed a national health insurance system and a guaranteed annual income, though without
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