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Wasn't the 55 limit passed during the Nixon years?

I believe it was passed about '73 or '74 as a result of an Arab oil crisis. I think it was a Nixon abomination.

157 posted on 05/24/2006 5:06:15 PM PDT by Ole Okie

To: Ole Okie; obnogs

I believe it was passed about '73 or '74 as a result of an Arab oil crisis. I think it was a Nixon abomination.

It was during my freshman year in college, which was 73-74, so that would have been Nixon.

223 posted on 05/25/2006 2:01:16 AM PDT by TN4Liberty (Sixty percent of all people understand statistics. The other half are clueless.)

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