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On Oct. 8, 1974, amid a dramatically worsening economy marked by skyrocketing inflation, President Gerald Ford unveiled a plan he called "Whip Inflation Now." To fight inflation, the government made millions of WIN buttons and encouraged people to carpool to conserve gas \u2014 this was after the Arab oil embargo \u2014 and to grow their own food. The campaign was a disaster, alternately ridiculed and hated. Most of all, it didn't work. Alan Greenspan, who was a top Ford economic adviser, called it \u201cunbelievable stupidity.\u201d