Creation of the EPA.
On July 9, 1970, amid a growing public demand for cleaner water, air and land, President Nixon submitted to Congress a reorganization plan proposing the establishment of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as an independent agency in the executive branch of the federal government. The plan proposed bringing together 15 components from five executive departments and independent agencies.
As I said, Democrat and Republican meant something very different in 1970. If you could find a vote on Nixon's EPA plan in Congress, you'd likely find many Dems against it and many liberal Republicans for it.
And, yes, Nixon also did a great deal to advance affirmative action.
Indeed, he did.
But one of the observable facts of the last forty years is that a great deal of well-meaning legislation has been co-opted and perverted by Democrat administrations and the bureaucracy.
EPA, Dept of Education, Affirmitive Action, ADA, Clean Air Act, you name it. They all started out as modest and unobtrusive, with admirable goals.
And, then, the liberals got ahold of them...and distorted them into blunt instruments to attack American freedoms.
Liberals are parasites dedicated to the destruction of the host.
Only Congress can create laws.
A democrat Congress wrote the laws that authorized and created the EPA.
Now defend the tens of thousands of other laws that your democrats/marxists created which are the problem: each e law created hundreds of agencies and hundreds of thousands of pages of anti-business regulations as in Obamacare.