| Andreas F. Lowenfeld - 2003 - 838 페이지
...seq. In signing the Act on New Year's Day 1970, President Nixon said: [TJhe 1970s absolutely must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by...living environment. It is literally now or never. (Public Papers of the Presidents: Richard M. Nixon 1970, 2) 13 Pub. L. 91-604, 84 Stat. 1676(31 Dec.... | |
| David Helvarg - 2004 - 404 페이지
...concern over the environment was a cause better embraced than challenged. "The 1970s absolutely must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by...living environment. It is literally now or never," he told Congress in his 1970 State of the Union message shortly before ordering the invasion of Cambodia.... | |
| Beatrice Trum Hunter - 2004 - 148 페이지
...amendment to the Gean Air Act, Richard M. Nixon told the American people that "America pays its debts to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its...living environment. It is literally now or never." To implement the new legislation, the administration estimated that $320 million would be needed for... | |
| Laura Flanders - 2005 - 374 페이지
...the times and hit a Green-note in his 1970 State of the Union address. "The 1970s absolutely must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by...of its air, its waters and our living environment," Nixon told Congress. "It is literally now or never.'' Gale Norton was sixteen, a high-school "A" student,... | |
| Allen A. Debus - 2006 - 231 페이지
...Environmental Protection Agency in America, President Richard M. Nixon claimed, "The 1970s absolutely must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by...and our living environment. It is literally now or never."12 systems hopelessly out of tune, the dinosaurs reacted by laying weak-shelled eggs, and in... | |
| J. Brooks Flippen - 2006 - 312 페이지
...Nixon signed NEPA while at his San Clemente, California, home. He declared that the new decade "must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by...reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters and our living environment."73 Nixon said nothing of his earlier opposition but rather portrayed himself as the ultimate... | |
| Jeff Goodell - 2007 - 357 페이지
...On New Year's Day in 1970, Republican president Richard Nixon declared the coming decade as a time when "America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming...living environment. It is literally now or never." Later that year, after 20 million young Americans massed in parks, dumps, and city streets, waving... | |
| 1968 - 882 페이지
...decade was to establish an environmental quality council. He declared that these "absolutely must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by...its air, its waters, and our living environment." And our transportation complex is a critical key in solving these "right now" environmental problems.... | |
| 1991 - 484 페이지
...On the day he signed the National Environmental Policy Act, President Nixon said the 1970s "must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by...its air, its waters, and our living environment." Today I say the 1990s must be the years when we not only pay our debt to the past, but also fulfill... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1972 - 1874 페이지
...the national mood about these sobering realities when he declared that 'the 1970's absolutely must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its water and our living environment.' "Of special concern is the fact that the waste products of our highly... | |
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