Q ..
I guess they are, yes. One of these things that comes back and forth. What was Al
Cochran like to work for? You worked for him for a long time.
A
He was fine. He didn't have a selfish bone in his body. He would push, help
anybody get ahead regardless. But, like everybody, he had some characteristics.
If someone was out of favor with him, why, he kind of gave them a bad time. But,
I never had any trouble with him. He was very good at planning and writing up
proposals and projects. He never worried about someone getting into his territory.
I had a [GS] 15, the same as he did the last few years there. This was based on
special considerations in that I represented the Chief's Office on a lot of foreign
things, and did a lot of things outside of the office, and, as I say, he supported that
fully.
Q ..
You were like a
senior consultant in the Corps.
A
Well.
Cop Consultant
Besides running whatever.
Q
A
I don't know whether you'd call it consultant. I represented them on, well, on the
St. Lawrence, on the Mississippi Basin Model Board. I got, fairly early, into the
international business. I was the representative on the Commission on Hydro-
meteorology of the World Meteorological Organization--that was new to the
Meteorological Organization. They set up the commission and the meteorologists
couldn't stand calling it hydrology, so they called it hydro-meteorology .
It was organized at a big meeting here in Washington, and the U.S. had three
representatives on the commission. The main one was the Weather Bureau man,
here was one from the Geological Survey, and I was the Corps of Engineers member
on that. That went on for years. I don't know how many times I went to Geneva
or other places for commissions or working group meetings. Mrs. Snyder went with
me on a number of times.
I remember one time when we were in Geneva, it was just after the Russianshad
invaded Czechoslovakia. The Russians were always at these meetings. They loved
to give parties and see how drunk they could get you. But word came to us to show
our disapproval. At that time there was a Water for Peace Program on. I don't
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