Richard Nixon actually said...

Last August I sent to the Congress the first annual report on the state of the nation's environment.

I have requested in my 1972 budget $2.45 billion for the programs of the Environmental Protection Agency.

I propose that $6 billion in Federal funds be authorized and appropriated over the next three years to provide the full Federal share of a $...

I have proposed to the Congress a sweeping and comprehensive program to do just that, and more--to end the plunder of America's natural heri...