there anything about gaylord nelson? there's a little bit. a little bit in gaylord nelson, of course, was more of a humphrey man himself. and so that created some some issues. but there's not a lot there's a bit where gaylord nelson is supposed to do an introduction and he's very long winded about it can be a bit perturbed by it, but there's not a lot of that. but i did. i did love reading some of the interviews with gaylord nelson just to kind of see the candor of how he felt about people and how people felt about him. you know? so there's a little but but frankly, i found myself most interested in the people whose names you never heard of. and so if i steered anywhere, it's probably for the lesser known figures. but great question. certainly same era, same time period. we have time for one more than if people want to share kennedy's story or two. i'd love to to hear from you. we can call it a night. yes, sir. what was your impetus to write about kennedy versus all the things you could have chosen? yeah. why did i? why they choose to write a

gaylord nelson, excuse _ gordon nelson... gaylord nelson, excuse me. — gordon nelson...iden complaining on - inflation reduction act. applause joe biden complaining on earth i inflation reduction act. applause i joe biden complaining on earth day. the panel is coming up. stay with us. hello there. a bit of a disappointing day again for this stage in april — rather grey, cloudy, damp, certainly across england and wales, where it did feel really chilly once again. that chilly feel is going continue for the rest of the week, with the best of the sunshine towards western areas — always more cloud towards the north and east. you can see the arctic air pretty much lingering across the uk the weekend, in fact, where things may turn a bit milder in the south. but we've had thick cloud across england and wales, courtesy of these weather fronts, which have brought outbreaks of light and patchy rain. and that patchy rain will continue across eastern england, southern southeast england through the night. further north and west, we'll have clearer skies here — so quite a chilly night

senator gaylord nelson of wisconsin saw the damage caused by a massive oil spill off the coast of santa barbara. the following year, he called for a nationwide peaceful demonstration. an environmental teach in and that is how earth day took route. on april 22, 1970 from coast to coast, more than two million americans showed up to participate including logan airport and boston massachusetts. a rally in manhattan with school kids attending their very first protest. a call in chicago to eliminate all burning cars. a determined plea. >> it is terribly important for us to begin to involve ourselves in politics to turn the system around. >> reporter: earth day would change the nation and secure the political will and action that led to the creation of the epa, as well as clean water and clean air act. and now 54 years later in 2024, earth day will focus on plastics. plastic production has now grown to more than 380 million tons a year. that includes hundreds of billions of plastic bags and plastic beverage containers, sold every year in the u.s. more than 95% of plastics in the nation won't b

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gaylord nelson senior counselor at the wilderness society. first articles on the environmental movement say that you're the father of earth day. how's your offspring doing at age 20. well, we've come out of this quite a distance since 1970. that is to say there's a great deal more awareness concern and understanding about the issue. now than there was then. there is finally a recognition, an important recognition on the part general that the activities of man on the planet are actually dangerously degrading the ecosystem that sustains all of the oceans, lakes, air force, soil. so we've come some distance. we have a long, long way to go, but at least there's a much better public understanding and much better understanding the legislators governors and members of legislature, congress that this is a a vital issue. in fact, i my own view is that the status, our resources, our air, water soil, rivers, oceans and so forth minerals, the that is the most important facing mankind on the planet, because determines quite precisely our standard of livin

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senator, gaylord nelson of wisconsin saw the damage caused by a massive oil spill off the coast of santa called for a nationwide peaceful demonstration, an environmental teach in, that is how earth day took root. on april 22nd, 1970, from coast to coast, more than 2 million americans showed up to participate, including a die-in at logan airport in boston, massachusetts, a rally in manhattan where kids attended their very first protest, and a call-in in chicago, and at stanford university, a determined plea . >> it is important to involve ourselves in politics so we can turn this around. >> reporter: it secured the action that led to the creation of the u.s. epa. as well as the clean water and clean air acts. now, 54 years later, in 2024, earth day will focus on plastics. plastic production has grown to more than 380 million tons per year. that includes hundreds of billions of plastic bags and plastic beverage containers sold every year in the u.s. more than 95% of plastics in the nation won't be recycled. >> earth day, the most important day in the world. >> reporter: in the bay area, a

senator gaylord nelson of wisconsin saw the damage caused by a massive oil spill off the coast of santaarbara. the following year, he called for a nationwide peaceful demonstration. and environmental teach-in. and that is how earth day took route. on april 22nd, 1970, from coast to coast, more than 2 million americans showed up to participate, including a die in at the airport in boston, massachusetts. a rally in manhattan with school kids attending their very first protest. a call-in in chicago to eliminate all fossil fuel burning callers. >> it is important for us to involve ourselves in politics so that we can turn the system around. >> reporter: it secure the political will and action that led to the creation of the u.s. epa as well as the clean water and clean air acts. now, 54 years later, in 2024, earth day will focus on plastics. plastic production has now grown to more than 380 million tons a year. that includes hundreds of billions of plastic bags and plastic beverage containers sold every year in the u.s. more than 95% of plastics in the nation will not be recycled at all. >>

gaylord nelson senior counselor at the wilderness society. first articles on the environmental movement say that you're the father of earth day. how's your offspring doing at age