Word: amchitka
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major arguments have always taken place between Congress and the White House, but now special interests also use the courts to nibble at Executive power. Environmentalists filed suit in 1971 to prevent Nixon from conducting an underground nuclear test on Alaska's Amchitka Island. The Supreme Court ruled 4 to 3 in the President's favor, but the battle left a bitter residue. Patrick Buchanan, then a White House aide, recalls asking Nixon what he would have done had the court gone against him. The President's angry response: "I was going to fire it anyway." That, perhaps...