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This president established the three-member Council on Environmental Quality as his first executive order of 1970. In his State of the Union address, he committed to $10 billion for a national clean waters program.

Answer: Richard Nixon

Source: National Fisherman,
June 1970, page 3-A

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Jessica Hathaway is a Fisheries and Seafood Senior Consultant for Ocean Strategies and is a former editor of National Fisherman.

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