When it came to domestic policy legislation, president nixon was often more reactive than proactive because he
a. believed that the president should generally defer to congress in policy-making
b. felt that his strongly liberal views were out of step with the views of most americans
c. was forced almost from the day he first took office to defend his actions in the watergate scandal
d. faced a congress with both houses strongly controlled by democrats

B.felt that his strongly liberal views were out of step with the views of most Americans

Explanation:

Richard Milhous Nixon was the thirty-seventh president of the United States between 1969 and 1974, the year in which he became the only president to resign. Previously, Nixon had been the 36th vice president of the United States from 1953 to 1961 and previously as a member of the United States House of Representatives (for the 12th district of California) and the United States Senate (for California).

As an internal policy In 1973, President Nixon put an end to compulsory military service and, thus, the United States military service became a totally voluntary force, founded the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970 in response to the growing concern about to pollution and protection of the environment. The agency oversaw the discussion of the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act, opening the doors to a new era of judicial restraint by appointing four Supreme Court justices: president of the Supreme Court Burger, Supreme Court President Harry Blackmun, Supreme Court President Lewis Powell and William Rehnquist, who was subsequently appointed as President of the Supreme Court by Ronald Reagan, opened the doors to women in college sports by signing the Title IX in 1972, a civil rights law that avoids gender biases in faculties and universities receiving federal aid, became the first president to grant Native Americans the right to tribal self-determination by ending the policy of forced assimilation and returning their sacred lands.