I was ADAF then. Hell, RR was a fellow Illinoisian, who had run as a liberal then became conservative. That "rebuilt the economy", you could just hang that on President Nixon. You do realize he did nothing about Pres J.C. deregulating Phones, Natural Gas, Electricity and especially Trucking. Avg OTR truckers used to make 70k yr, today its 35k. The Defense? RU Kidding? He gutted it, pulled the manpower out and privatized the Civil Engineer, Base Kitchen, Base Supply, all in the name of "Economics." I worked in Budgeting at the time and wrote numerous papers to the W/H saying why it was a mistake. By the numbers. No actual increase in Ships/planes/tanks, just planned increases. And when the Soviets fell, those planned increases went by the way side. Cost? About 3 Trillion$. So do I know? Oh yeah, I've got a pretty good idea! Not everything was ghosted, I could point to a boondoggle on Tyndall AFB that was built not to spec for 15m$ at the urging of the local commanding Gen'l. Or the attempt to run 30 foreign nationals thru US courses in my shop at a cost of 10m$. They were really pissed when I wouldn't let that happen. Or the 1500$Acft tires that were bought thru Sabine instead of Tinker AFB for 300$. You think he was super? He was the worst spindthrift since the last one, unfortunately. I don't think Pres Trump would have put up with it if he knew of it.