Round 7: Tossup 10

This politician claimed that a decade must be the time “when America pays its debt to the past” after proposing Reorganization Plan No. 3. This politician signed a bill with a ninth section that defines unlawful “taking” drafted by his appointee Russell E. Train. This politician proposed a form of universal basic income for poor families in his Family Assistance (-5[1])Plan. (-5[1])This president’s administration temporarily banned all offshore drilling in federal waters after the (*) Santa Barbara oil spill. After Martha Griffiths reintroduced it to Congress, this president endorsed the Equal (-5[1])Rights Amendment. (-5[1])The celebration of the first Earth Day inspired this president to form a new governmental body. For 10 points, name this president who signed the Endangered Species Act and created the Environmental (10[1])Protection Agency. ■END■ (10[4])

ANSWER: Richard Nixon [or Richard Milhous Nixon]
<EC, American History> | NAFTA-Packet-7
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Summary

TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
2026 NAFTA at Stanford01/17/20264100%0%50%104.50
2026 NAFTA at UBC01/17/20262100%50%0%75.00
2025 NAFTA Online02/14/20264100%75%25%79.00
2026 NAFTA at Vanderbilt02/14/20263100%33%33%93.00
2025 NAFTA at Toronto09/13/20255100%0%80%125.40
2025 NAFTA at Maryland09/27/20255100%20%40%106.20
2025 NAFTA at Harvard10/04/2025367%0%67%111.00
2025 NAFTA at Oxford10/11/2025475%0%50%116.33
2025 NAFTA at Chicago11/08/20256100%17%33%93.83
2025 NAFTA at Columbia11/08/20255100%20%20%90.80
2025 NAFTA at Richmond12/20/20252100%50%0%71.50