Legacy
Most noteworthy, Blanchard initiated Michigan's first Office of the Great Lakes and created the Michigan Education Trust (MET), the nation's first tuition guarantee program, The Michigan Strategic Fund, The Canada-US Open Skies Agreement of 1995 and authored "Behind the Embassy Door" in 1998. He was reelected 1986 by the largest margin of any governor in Michigan history. Newsweek credited Governor Blanchard with leading "one of the most dramatic economic turnabouts in the recent history of state government," and national publications such as U.S. News & World Report listed him among the best governors in America, one of the innovators and energizers who made things work in an era of declining federal aid.
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