I really think it would have been much better for the GOP in the long run if Nixon had been able to get his universal healthcare bill over the finish line. They just keep giving the ds ammo on the healthcare front.
Man, the idea of an alternate history where Nixon is an FDR-type father of the nation, who pushed through universal healthcare. That would be a different world, with a very different GOP.
Could you imagine what the GOP would be like having all that Democratic leverage taken away and have been taken away 45 years ago?
