NIXON VERSUS PLYWOOD INFLATION, AND OTHER Presidential Price Control Stories

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, Politics, History

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🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Stories of Presidential inflation fighting and fund-raising that seem to have a similar ring to today's events, in this episode. Nixon's plans to cut housing costs by reducing prices on the key element of housing inspires timber companies but riles environmentalist. Johnson uses his air fleet to shuttle the right people around to get the price of electrical wiring down. Eisenhower, Reagan, Hoover and Clinton raise the gas tax. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.
0:04.0	Do you want to know where you can find almost 500 episodes of the history of World War II?
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0:15.6	podcast, where I provide in-depth examinations of the key people and events that shaped
0:21.1	World War II.
0:22.1	While there, you'll also find interviews with
0:24.7	authors who provide new and interesting reflections that help further our
0:29.2	understanding of the conflict and the people that fought it.
0:32.8	And a new episode comes out every week.
0:34.8	And more history, that's always a good thing.
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0:48.0	. .
0:50.0	. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oh, The momentum of four years of inflation was stronger than had been anticipated.
1:14.1	When we think of 1969, we think of Apollo, we think of Man on the Moon, we think of Age of
1:20.5	Aquarius, we think of Woodstock, but to read media sources at the time we should be thinking about something else.
1:28.0	Inflation.
1:30.0	It was the beginning of it. It was just a worry in 1969 coming off a booming economy that prices might be going up.
1:40.6	The pace of our progress toward price stability and high employment has not been quick enough.
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