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100 1 $aFlippen, J. Brooks,$d1959-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00035709
245 10 $aNixon and the environment /$cJ. Brooks Flippen.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aAlbuquerque :$bUniversity of New Mexico Press,$c[2000], ©2000.
300 $aix, 308 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 281-292) and index.
520 1 $a"No one remembers Richard M. Nixon as an environmental president, but a year into his presidency, he committed his administration to regulating and protecting the environment. The public outrage over the Santa Barbara oil spill in early 1969, culminating in the first Earth Day in 1970, convinced Nixon that American environmentalism now enjoyed extraordinary political currency.
520 8 $aNo nature lover at heart, Nixon opportunistically tapped the burgeoning Environmental Movement and signed the Endangered Species Act in 1969 and National Environmental Protection Act in 1970 to challenge political rivals such as Senators Edmund Muskie and Henry Jackson. As Nixon jockeyed for advantage on regulatory legislation, he signed laws designed to curb air, water, and pesticide pollution, regulate ocean dumping, protect coastal zones and marine mammals, and combat other problems. His administration compiled an unprecedented environmental record, but anti-Vietnam War protests, outraged industrialists, a sluggish economy, the growing energy crisis, and the Watergate upheaval drove dNixon to turn his back on the very programs he signed into law.
520 8 $aOnly late in life did he re-embrace the substantial environmental legacy of his tumultuous presidency."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEnvironmental policy$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103047
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1969-1974.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140471
600 10 $aNixon, Richard M.$q(Richard Milhous),$d1913-1994.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79018757
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