Where were you 40 years ago this evening when President Richard M. Nixon resigned?

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107. Nixon approved OSHA and the EPA...and

Clean Air Act; The Wilderness Act; Signed Title IX in 1972; ended the policy of forced assimilation of American Indians, returned sacred lands, and became the first American President to give them the right to tribal self-determination; NEPA; Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972; Endangered Species Act of 1973.

And he vetoed the Clean Water Act of 1972—objecting not to the policy goals of the legislation but to the amount of money to be spent on them, which he deemed excessive. After Congress overrode his veto, Nixon impounded the funds he deemed unjustifiable.

Personally, I despised him and to be fair, he did much of this for political capital as he saw how people hated him for Vietnam, he though this would appease us somewhat.

I was enjoying one of my first legal alcoholic beverages in a tavern with many happy people who cheered for a long time at the announcement of the resignation... many of us had siblings, loved ones an relatives who were sent to the war, many never came all the way home or didn't come back alive.