Summary Of In The Arena By Russael E. Train

Russel E. Train is the author. Train was the Chairman Emeritus of th World Wildlife Fund. He wrote this text in winter of 1996. The Center for the Study of the Presidency in Washington is the publisher of this text. It was published in Presidential Studies Quarterly, a scholarly press.
This journal’s intended audience is scholars and students. He aimed to write towards those who are unsure of (or tend to ignore) what Nixon’s administration had accomplished environmentally. He also aimed to write towards those who tend to view Nixon negatively.
People tend to not realize how successful Nixon was environmentally. Train believes “without a doubt in [his] mind” that the Nixon administration’s “single most significant domestic accomplishment” was

He also used information from the several annual reports of the Council on Environmental Quality starting in 1970, and cites as so. In his notes at the bottom of his work, he added that the feels the best overall source of information about the Nixon Administration’s environmental record was from these annual reports. He includes direct quotations from Nixon himself, from Nixon’s message transmitting his plans to establish the EPA and NOAA to congress. These quotes were taken from Reorganization Plan No. 3. To further show how Nixon’s environmental work is often overlooked, Train makes mention of the book Nixon himself wrote, In the Arena, where he briefly mentioned his work with the environment in the footnote. Not only does the general public tend to ignore Nixons environmental accomplishments, Nixon himself views them as insignificant compared to his other works. Train also referes to Theodore H. White, and his book, Breach Of Faith. White was an observer of presidents and presidental candidates, and states that environmental policy and the invasion of Cambodia are 2 of Nixons great accomplishment, where his environmental policy is “ignored”and the invasion is “denounced”. Train also included various acts, proposals and legislations created and enacted during the Nixon administration, such as The various sources Train uses help further his main point, how Nixons environmental record is simply ignored by the majority of people. Train agrees with the majority of authors who have written about Nixons environmental record, however, not that many individuals have written about Nixon and the environment. Train disagrees with others who ignore Nixons environemntal success, as he feels these people view the Watergate Scandal and other things Nixon had done as more significant and