(Badwater Bill) wrote in message ...
... I only hope that most of the
people who participated in this activity will find the humor in my
telling it and won't take offense

Well, OK, I won't take offense. I'll jsut point out a thing or two.

United States Environmental Protection Agency's highest honor,
the Gold Medal for Outstanding Achievement.

BTW, the US EPA was created by Richard Nixon.


In 1971 Richard Millhouse Nixon was the President of the United States
of America. He was a person who was steeped in the bull **** of
Washington and a crook to boot. He was so deceitful that his nickname
was "Tricky Dicky." He was serving his first term in office and was
up for reelection in 1972.

Yep, he was, in a word, a crook.

... We young guys ( I was 22) hated this war monger and wanted his
ass out of the White House because he was in the pockets of big
industry and they were the ones who were driving the war in Viet Nam.
There was no reason to be in Viet Nam other than to support war
industry in this country.

That may explain why Kennedy and Johnson sent American troops to
Vietnam. It doesn't explain why Nixon brought them back. As
you will recall, Nixon reduced the America forces in Vietnam until
the point when, in 1973, the year after I turned 18, the draft had
ended.

Nixon got us out of Vietnam.

The real deal was
this: Nixon was so scared about environmental issues and his lack of
addressing them, someone in his staff concocted this three year survey
to make the President look visible on environmental issues.

The real deal is that Nixon Create the US EPA and became the first
President since Teddy Roosevelt to actually give a **** about
the environmental protection and occupational health and safety.

Even the worst of crooks aren;t all bad.

He played piano rather well too.

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FF