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Here's an unorthodox candidate for the title of America's greenest President: Richard Milhous Nixon. It was the arch-Republican Nixon, after all, who created the Environmental Protection Agency and the Council on Environmental Quality, who signed the landmark Clean Air Act into law. Nixon isn't the only Republican President who can claim a green legacy. Environmentalism as a political force effectively began with President Theodore Roosevelt, a lifelong conservationist and outdoorsman who made Yosemite a national park and created 42 million acres of national forests. And even George H.W. Bush, whose promise to be the "environmental President...
...good news is that after nearly eight years of George W. Bush - who will almost certainly own the worst environmental record of any President - conservatives aren't afraid to be seen as green. There's Senator John McCain, of course, the presumptive Republican candidate for President, who was an early leader on climate change in Congress. (Although his idea of lifting the federal gasoline tax for the summer - which Senator Hillary Clinton also supports - is exactly the sort of energy policy we don't need, a pandering fix that will barely affect gas prices and only encourage Americans to drive...
...ever find yourself at odds with being from a prominent Democratic family and being married to a Republican? -Valencia Jackson, HOUSTONIt's definitely different to be married to someone from a different political party. It has really taught me to look beyond labels, which is something my dad [Sargent Shriver] was really adamant about. Get rid of all that and look at who the person is, and you're much better...
Harvard’s $35-billion endowment has also drawn scrutiny from Washington, where Senator Charles E. Grassley, an Iowa Republican, has proposed legislation to make universities spend five percent of their wealth each year, as foundations must...
According to Moldea, who last year examined Palfrey's phone records and discovered the name of Vitter, a Republican, as a client of Palfrey's escort servie - Pamela Martin & Associates - the last time he saw Palfrey in person was less than week before her conviction on prostitution charges on April 15. "A friend and I met with Jeanne and we had a sushi lunch near the courtroom," he said. "She was upbeat and hopeful. She felt the prosecution had not made the case and that she was going to walk. She was hopeful to the end." But, when the jury...