Nixon at 100 -- The Liberal

Today is Richard M. Nixon's 100th birthday. Arguably, he was the most liberal president between FDR and Obama.  No joke.  Consider:

• He imposed wage-price controls.
• He proposed a guaranteed annual income, a proposal that would have taken welfare in the opposite direction from the conservative welfare reform that Bill Clinton signed in 1996.
• He proposed a reform of health insurance that was a model for Obamacare.
• He signed the Occupational Safety and Health Act, establishing OSHA.
• He established the Environmental Protection Agency.
• He signed legislation indexing social security benefits to inflation.
• He signed the Clean Air Amendments of 1970, the Coastal Zone Management Act, the Ocean Dumping Act, and the Endangered Species Act.
• He signed the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972.
• He issued Executive Order 11478, which required each agency to "establish and maintain an affirmative program of equal employment opportunity for all civilian employees and applicants for employment."
• He signed Title IX, which forbids sex discrimination in federally financed education programs.
• He supported the Equal Rights Amendment.