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Re: Mid Terms
Author: Sgt. Joe Friday
Date: 11-05-2014 - 10:18

Let's not be so fast to hit the panic button - the politics on passenger trains aren't as clear cut as some would like to think.

First of all, it was LBJ that put the last nail in the coffin of privately run rail passenger service, and he was no Republican. Nixon was the one who signed the bill creating Amtrak, and I don't have to tell you what party he belonged to.

It was under Reagan that Amtrak hired Graham Claytor, and enjoyed some pretty good years. Bill Clinton presided over budget cuts that resulted in the elimination of the Desert Wind, just as Jimmy Carter went along with Amtrak budget cuts 20 years before that.

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