Nixon's economy : booms, busts, dollars, and votes
"Though Richard Nixon came to office preoccupied with foreign policy, he soon had to grapple with an economy that threatened him with political defeat. Following the advice of Milton Friedman, the president placed his initial hopes for good times in the economics of caution. But when the economy dipped into recession and cost the Republicans victory in the congressional election of 1970, Nixon turned for rescue not to his economists but to a politician, the former Democratic governor of Texas, John Connally, who became secretary of the treasury midway through the first term"--Book jacket
Print Book, English, ©1998
University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, Kan., ©1998