Please, don’t give them any more ideas, Mr. Jeeves.
And wasn’t it Bubba himself, early in his first administration, who authorized the sell-off of Pacific Northwest rainforest to Mitsubishi, i.e., Japan? (It was called Option 9) He and Mr. Environment, his veep.
He doesn't need to. Nixon was the first to collateralize the Western mineral estate after the collapse of the Brettonwoods Agreement.