OTD: President Nixon ordered a halt to construction of the Cross Florida Barge Canal 46 years ago today to “prevent potentially serious environmental damages” to a “uniquely beautiful, semi-tropical stream …”
It was the first time a sitting president stopped an appropriated and funded civil works project. (Read more about it in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, South Atlantic Division’s history file, pages 86-92, here: http://ow.ly/ik0I308afPI)