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Re: Mid Terms
Author: Poor Richard
Date: 11-06-2014 - 19:55

Tom Rawson Wrote:
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> LBJ had nothing to do with canceling the post
> office contracts. The private railroads all
> petitioned to get out of the mail business, and
> then would wait a few months and then petition the
> ICC to discontinue passenger trains, citing lost
> mail contracts as a reason.
> Private RRs were trying to get out of the
> passenger business long before LBJ came along.


I didn't claim that LBJ did it, only that he was President when it happened. As for railroads "trying to get out of the passenger business;" Duh!

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