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[quote user="schlimm"] The reason Menck would probably know is that he was head of one of the major players involved in the formation of Amtrak.  If you honestly think that only members of Congress and the Nixon Administration had anything to do with the NRPC's beginnings, and that all of the decision process is on the public record, then you are ignorant of how Washington generally works. [/quote] What specific role did Menck play in the formation of Amtrak.  And where did he write down his knowledge that Amtrak was formed with the intent of destroying it? Lots of industry people were involved in recommending that the government take over the operation of the nation's intercity passenger trains.  But they were not the decision makers.  Menk may have believed that the enterprise would fail.  Did he write that down or are his thoughts simply hearsay? We are talking about history.  Historians can only determine what people thought about a subject if they wrote it down, left an oral history, or it was incorporated into historical documents.   You just cannot help throwing barbs.  And using inflammatory words like ignorant.  What makes you think that you have an edge on how Washington works?  I lived in Washington off and on for several years, whilst I worked in our company's D.C. government affairs office.
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