Warren’s universal childcare proposal sounds a lot like the national program we very nearly had in the 1970s bit.ly/2RNOIm5
https://twitter.com/ewarren/status/1097844452255825921
That bill, which passed Congress with bipartisan support, would have created a national network of locally operated childcare centers.
Nixon had asked for the bill to be drafted and everyone thought he would sign it. And then Pat Buchanan got to him. bit.ly/2SNXSjh
Nixon vetoed it, calling it communism. As Buchanan told me in 2014, his childcare veto “may have killed it for more than half a century.”
That era, it seems, is coming to an end.
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