I respectfully disagree. Reagan in his initial drive to shrink the government abolished some departments one of which contained the incompetent Metric Board with the inconsequential, shamefully law, $300,000 budget. When Reagan took over, the MB was already dying after Carter replaced several members on the Board with union reps. Agreements thereafter were rare and no useful work was done. Some pro-metric members resigned. Reagan, if he even new about the MB, would have killed a dead horse. I'll be curios of other recollections. Stan Jakuba
On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 8:35 PM, Harry Wyeth <hbwy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, it is good to remember that just one person can make such an impact > on history. I clearly recall that Reagan was the one person who but the > brakes on U.S. metrication. If he had had the sense to think about the > future beyond the next decade or so, he would have made a more rational > decision. It will take fifty years to undo the damage he did to what we > believe in. > > HARRY WYETH > On 10/14/16 1224:24, Mark Henschel wrote: > > http://www.treehugger.com/environmental-policy/believe- > it-or-not-us-metric-association-100-years-old-year.html > > > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing > listUSMA@lists.colostate.eduhttps://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma > > > > _______________________________________________ > USMA mailing list > USMA@lists.colostate.edu > https://lists.colostate.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/usma > >
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