Reply #10: I think the speed limits were lowered during the Nixon years. [View All]

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Carter would have been president in 1979.

Carter gets a bad rap by taking all of the blame for the tough economic times of the 1970s. People forget that inflation was a big problem during the Nixon and Ford administrations. Nixon imposed a 90-day wage and price freeze in 1971 in an attempt to slow the inflation momentum. Ford unveiled his "Whip Inflation Now" campaign, where everyone wore "WIN" pins. Daylight Savings Time was a year-round thing beginning under the Ford administration in an attempt to save energy by shifting daylight hours later in the day.

There was also the Swine Flu, the cure for which thee was no known disease.