Abstract

NAFTA Friends

This article presents information on U.S. President William John Clinton's environmental strategy of obtaining reverse access to the movement which found similar thoughts among North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Most national environmental organizations were either hesitant about or opposed to the terms that Carla Hills, George Bush's U.S. Trade Representative, had negotiated. Clinton figured he could not win U.S. Congressional approval for the agreement without more support from the environmental community. Conservative enviros like the National Wildlife Federation's Jay Hair had supported the fast-track legislation for NAFTA, which gave the Republican President the power to negotiate the agreement and submit it to Congress on a drastically constrained timetable.