Richard Nixon And The Rise Of The Environment

Earth Day, April 22, 2010: In the third in a year-long series of Richard Nixon Legacy Forums, three former Nixon Administration officials were at the Nixon Library on Thursday to discuss the 37th Presidents record in green policy and how they met the goals of the original Earth Day demonstrations, a seminal event which took place 40 years ago to the day.

Among the participants were former American Enterprise Institute President Christopher DeMuth, who started his career as a young staffer in the Domestic Council working on environmental and urban policy issues; William Ruckelshaus, the First Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency; and John Whitaker a longtime associate of RN and trained geologist, who served as Domestic Council Associate Director for Environmental Policy and later as Undersecretary of Interior. Moderating the panel was Dr. J. Brooks Flippen, Professor of History at Southeastern Oklahoma State University and author of Nixon and the Environment.

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• Earth Day
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• Green policy
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• Christopher DeMuth
• William Ruckelshaus
• John Whitaker
• Dr. J. Brooks Flippen
• Ron Walker
• Tim Naftali
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