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Workers have been feeling the sting of inflation.

So as a new administration promises action on the cost of living, taxes, and home prices,

the S&P 500 biggest post-election day spike ever,

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The news begins tonight with the government's announcement that prices for gasoline, diesel, fuel, and home heating oil are going up.

In the early 1970s, a series of crises cascaded.

They looked eerily similar to today's, gas prices.

We have an energy crisis.

Cars were lined up for blocks at some gasoline stations.

There was inflation.

The energy crisis has developed into a money crisis.

We are losing the battle against inflation.

And there was a challenge to American democracy.

The Watergate bugging caper.

Mr. Nixon says emphatically that the White House is in no way involved.

I have never heard or seen such outrageous, vicious, distorted reporting.

Congress has drawn its first blood in the Watergate affair.

The sudden threats to American security, prosperity, democracy. It felt catastrophic.

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