Nixon was a card-carrying Member of what we’ve come to despise as the Establishment GOP Country Club. He not only created Amtrak but the lovely and easy-to-do-business-with EPA.
Charming.
To the last.
Nixon caved into the “politics “ demanding an EPA be created. Same with Amtrak being created because we needed to have government owned\run passenger service just like the enlightened European & Japanese.