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| Source | Ian Murray |
| Date | 02/04/03/02:10 |
| http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/commandingheights/press_site/people/friedman_intv.html#1
On Richard Nixon MILTON FRIEDMAN: Nixon was the most socialist of the presidents of the United States in the 20th century. INTERVIEWER: I've heard Nixon accused of many things, but never [of being] a socialist before. MILTON FRIEDMAN: Well, his ideas were not socialist -- quite the opposite -- but if you look at what happened during his administration, first of all, the number of pages in the Federal Register, which is full of regulations about business, doubled during his regime. During his regime the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency, was established and the OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the OECA [the EPA's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance] -- about a dozen, a half dozen alphabetic agencies were established, so that you had the biggest increase in government regulation and control of industry during the Nixon administration that you had in the whole postwar period. |
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