Not since Nixon has the power of a U.S. president set in motion a transformation of global economics, trading patterns, ...

And some pointed to that messy web of inflation causes and effects, which included the slowdown of the Vietnam War and an ...

Nixon, the 37th president from 1969 to 1974, presided over an inflation rate that rose from 6.2% to 12.3% by the end of his term. In contrast, the latest economic data shows the current inflation ...

With inflation rising, the clamor to do something was mounting in both political circles and the press. At the end of June 1971, Nixon had told his economic advisors, "We will not have a wage ...

President Nixon in a meeting about freezing prices in the early 1970s. Combatting inflation with ... [+] price controls and regulation is nothing new (Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images).