Sheesh! Bizpax, bit of a lightyear stretch tying this into a fight between good and evil.
I don't doubt that all sides have good intentions. Dick's proposal had some tremendous parts that would have been good for aviation in this country. But in the washout, and quite rightly, there are procedures required to justify any change like this. NAS had a few parts that just couldn't pass the required checks and balances that a good administration should have in place.
The disgusting part in all this was that there were well paid administrators prepared to overlook their own organisations' checks and balances for the sake of a perceived growth in personal influence. NAS wouldn't have progressed as far as it did in the form it had if a few influential people had have made responsible decisions in the first place.