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President Theodore Roosevelt helped solidify conservation as a national agenda item along with preservationist John Muir.

Executive Conservation

Review of Presidents and the American Environment, by Otis L. Graham, Jr. (Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 2015)
… and rewarding career with the United States Forest Service, that my many happy memories of camping, fishing, … impulse—conserving public lands across the nation in the service of the national public good—is the focus of Otis L. … onto both parties’ national agendas for decades to come and FDR splicing “conservation into the Democratic …
Woodcut print depicting the Second Defenestration of Prague in 1618

Out the Window: Religion, Politics, and a Defenestration in Prague

… spirit and with a large gesture invite an enemy to become an angel without further preparation or a flying … in vodka, brandy and other fire waters with the concomitant excitement of thrusting an opponent through the … the two unfortunate royal advisors who were invited to become angels that afternoon “without further preparation or a …