Franklin F. Snyder
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Okay. The next one was '59-'62, Bill Cassidy. You knew Cassidy.
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Yes, he must have been in, you're talking about when he was Chief?
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Director of Civil Works first.
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Oh, Civil Works.
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Then he was Deputy Chief and then he was Chief.
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When was he Chief?
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He was Chief from '65-'69.
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Oh, so I was wondering how I.
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He became Chief like about a year-and-a-half before you retired.
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Well, for some reason or other, and I don't know why, I got to know him when he
was in Civil Works. I remember taking him home from the airport one time when
Mary picked me up. I don't know why I felt I knew him better than the others. I
always liked him. I don't remember any-4 was trying to think if he was involved
in that Florida project that they're now redoing. I was sent down there to help the
district when they were designing the streamlining of the river project.
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Okeechobee?
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Yes. We were straightening the channel of the Kissimmee and St. Johns Rivers,
speeding it up and everything. Now we're just trying to reverse the conditions. I
saw something the other day that was crazy. These environmentalists! The way it
is now, there's one place that they want to put back into a flooding condition, but
the environmentalists won't let them because there's some bird or something in there
now. It came in after they built the project, that they don't want to disturb it.
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So what did you think of that project when you went and looked at it?
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