Nixon and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 1970 Today when politicians talk about reforming SNAP, Medicaid, or Medicare, we can be pretty certain they mean reducing benefits. But almost 50 years ago, politicians proposed, and sometimes won, social benefit reforms that actually made aid programs more comprehensive. And, as Richard P. Nathan explains, one important agent of this effort was none other than Richard Nixon.
Nixon was a well-known opponent of the expansion of federal benefits under Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society program . Years after he left office, his domestic policy chief recalled that Nixon thought the programs wouldn’t be […]
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