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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... primary , property tax equalization , a civil service system , lobbying regulations , a worker's compensation law , a state life insurance program , a state industrial commission , laws regulating labor by women and chil- dren , and the ...
... primary , " wrote Theodore H. White , who chronicled the 1960 presidential cam- paign . The Progressive philosophy that led Wisconsin to create the nation's first presidential primary in 1903 “ has made and left Wisconsin in political ...
... primary to Walter Kohler , who was beaten by Proxmire in the general election . Kuehn , then the party chairman , blamed Kohler's loss on " fratricidal bickering . " Kuehn's convention endorsement in 1960 cleared his way to oppose ...
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