Wonders never cease! THG is out of the closet, as it were. Glad to have you here and contributing, Wes.

What boggles the mind about Nixon is that during his reign regime terms in office the Environmental Protection Agency came into being and the Clean Air Act was given teeth.

From an article at http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/epa/15c.htm, you'll find

But President Nixon made the task facing EPA's first Administrator even greater by insisting upon the importance of viewing "the environment as a whole." The President's charge to the first EPA Administrator was to treat "air pollution, water pollution and solid wastes as different forms of a single problem." The main purpose of the reorganization that gave birth to EPA was to introduce a "broad systems approach [that]...would give unique direction to our war on pollution."

Make no mistake that I was a supporter of Nixon's in any way. I was home for lunch, glued to the tube, and pleased as punch when he made his speech and left office. But these were significant events to have transpired during his years in office. I guess the image of Lake Erie on fire was enough to light a fire under the White House!

SRS