The Man from Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Senator Gaylord Nelson On Earth Day 1970 twenty million Americans displayed their commitment to a clean environment. It was called the largest demonstration in human history, and it permanently changed the nation’s political agenda. By Earth Day 2000 participation had exploded to 500 million people in 167 countries. Winner, Elizabeth A. Steinberg Prize, University of Wisconsin Press |
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... O'Brien , Republican senator from the Green Bay area , was neither a maverick nor an independent thinker . An insurance salesman and public relations man with no real political ambitions , he was a reliable vote who “ rarely strayed ...
... O'Brien , McCarthy and McCarthyism , 160 ; W. H. Lawrence , " Welch Assails M'Carthy's ' Cruelty ' and ' Recklessness ' in Attack on Aide ; Senator , on Stand , Tells of Red Hunt , ” NYT , 10 June 1954 ; “ McCarthy's Worst Enemy , " WSJ ...
... O'Brien , Felix , 16 O'Brien , Hanora " Nora " ( grandmother ) , 16 O'Brien , Lawrence , 176 , 315 , 316 O'Brien , Leo , 145-46 O'Brien , Mary Walsh , 16 Ochs , Phil , 4 Office of Economic Opportunity ( OEO ) , 226-27 , renamed Commu ...
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