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Norman D. Dicks: And it was lit on fire. And then the Clean Water Act was passed by Congress, and guess who signed it? Richard Milhous…

On the recordJuly 11, 2011
And it was lit on fire. And then the Clean Water Act was passed by Congress, and guess who signed it? Richard Milhous Nixon. He signed that bill. He signed the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Policy Act. I mean, in those days there were Republicans who cared about the environment.
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Norman D. Dicks
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Jul 11, 2011

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