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Historian Melvin Small cites what Congress passed and Nixon signed into law, sometimes after resisting but usually by compromising: extension of the Voting Rights Act, postal reorganization, the Clean Air Act, the Water Pollution Control Act, the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the establishment of an Office of Consumer
... See moreEvan Thomas • Being Nixon
Bygott History
Roger Bygott • 5 cards
Far less renowned than the Hollywood Ten or writers like Howard Fast or Arthur Miller, David Lasser, one of the country’s first space advocates and the author of The Conquest of Space, became one of the first victims of the Red Scare.
Robert Stone • Chasing the Moon: How America Beat Russia in the Space Race
Arbel Yehoud and Gadi Mozes from Nir Oz.
Eli Sharabi • Hostage
Three white men approached Lamar Smith, who during World War II had enlisted in the Army at the age of forty-nine, and who now, having returned from the war to build up a profitable farm, had enlisted in another battle: “He was determined,” an admirer would say, “that his people would have a say in local government.” The three men warned Smith to
... See moreRobert A. Caro • Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson III
In 1993, when the Oslo Peace Accords were signed, the settler population was 111,000. Today it’s half a million.
Ta-Nehisi Coates • The Message
Gerard Bettsack
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Across the road from where she’s parked, aspens tumble down the basin toward Fish Lake, where five years earlier a Chinese refugee engineer took his three daughters camping on the way to visiting Yellowstone.
