he was worried his political enemy, muskee, senator from maine and jackson, presidential rivals would take advantage so in many ways he was defensive, didn't want to lose ground on this issue. last explicable, his unwillingness after his presidency to incorporate his environmental achievements or administration's environmental achievements into his legacy, never mentioned it, odd for a guy so concerned with framing his legacy which is why i think flippant's book is so important because it beings on the hisoriography of wilson and the policy and part of that and there is indeed a lot to talk about and i can't possibly get into all, air pollution, water pollution, natural resources, parks, wilderness, pesticides, the epa, the national environment, the policy act, take your pick. and so my effort to deemphasize nixon in talking about this really what i want to avoid doing is peering into nixon's soul. no good comes of peering into nixon's soul, although we're very tempted to do it, because so much was accomplished on his watch and we want to know, did he really mean it, because then of c