During his presidency, Richard Nixon tried to stop inflation by passing Executive Order 11615. This law put a ninety day freeze on all wages and prices in order to stop inflation. This was one of the few times in American history where the government controlled the prices of goods for an extended period of time. The last time they did this before Nixon was during World War II.
<span>The correct answer is D. Napoleon. It's relatively recent history, but before him there were no Emperors of France. There were a lot of rulers and kings but the title of Emperor was first granted to Napoleon in the 19th century. The idea was that he's the king of the nation and the people and not of the republic.</span>