QUOTATION
“The Republican Party was created in 1854 as an anti-slavery party. Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower created the interstate highway system, worked to integrate black and white public schools nationwide, and expanded Social Security. Republicans pushed through the Civil Rights Act of 1964. President Richard Nixon sat down with Communist China and the Soviet Union “without preconditions” and negotiated new trade and arms agreements, expanded Social Security, tried to pass minimum wage and universal health care plans (unsuccessfully), created the EPA and OSHA, and created The Philadelphia Plan, which was the U.S. government’s first affirmative action program. President Gerald Ford pushed through the Equal Rights Amendment, proclaiming, “In this Land of the Free, it is right, and by nature it ought to be, that all men and all women are equal before the law.“
