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Richard Nixon ws the 36th vice president and the 37th president in the United States of American. He ran from 1969 to 1974 and in that time he succeeded in ending American fighting in Viet Nam and improving relations with the U.S.S.R. and China. But on August 8, 1974 he had resigned from a issue with Watergate scandal. During his time he had a big impact on National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). On January 1, 1970 although Nixon really did not want to, he had sign the NEPA that was sponsored by Senator Henry M. Jackson, he only did this because he recognized the broad popular support for environmental legislation.

The Act’s requirement that federal agencies prepare environmental impact statements before taking major action transforms government decision-making and becomes a powerful tool for environmentalists. It helped acknowleded the decades of environmental neglect that had significantly degraded the nation's landscape and damaged the human environment. Many states adopted the laws modeled after NEPA, and the principle of publicly analyzing environmental impacts spreads to countries around the world. But in the 1970's activists discovered that NEPA provided a powerful tool to halt, delay, or modify projects they considered harmful, and soon courts ruled that citizen groups could sue to ensure compliance with the Act. But over the years the NEPA had made a huge difference to the environment around us.

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