The Metric Conversion Act is an Act of Congress that U.S. President Gerald Ford  signed into law on December 23, 1975. It declared the metric system "the  preferred system of weights and measures for United States trade and commerce ", but ... The metrification board was abolished in 1982 by President Ronald  Reagan, ...
Refusing to give an inch America's only metric road ... Only three nations do not  use the metric system today: Myanmar, Liberia and the United States. ... Marciano  says his young editor had no idea the United States had come within millimeters  of .... The newscast highlighted President Ronald Reagan's budget, the Solidarity  ...
Parent agency, Executive Office of the President. The United States Metric Board  (USMB) was a United States government agency set up to encourage metrication . The United States Metric Board was commissioned by the Metric Conversion ...  See also[edit]. Imperial and US customary measurement systems ... Article · Talk  ...
Jan 28, 2013 ... While U.S. scientists are used to converting units, an ideal scientifically ... From  The United States and the Metric System, NIST LC 1136: “The efforts of ... in an  effort [by President Reagan] to reduce Federal spending, the Metric Board .... the  Imperial system !!!!! which by the way, as the word Imperial says it, ...
Jun 16, 2016 ... “I would say that the United States of America is at least 40 percent metric, ...  1975, when President Gerald Ford signed the Metric Conversion Act—which ...  Then President Ronald Reagan, using public opposition to his advantage,  dismantled the U.S. Metric Board in 1982. ..... He can't stop talking about it.
Says Ronald Reagan "talked about" converting the United States to the metric system.