Theodore M.
Right.
A: -by legislation.
Right.
A: Abel Wolman used to say many times that this is the only time that any agency
has ever been terminated by act of Congress. Usually they just let them die, but
that
happen very often either.
And so the Bureau of the Budget picked up the
Right.
A: -and they put out Executive Order 9384, and Congress refused to fund
Right.
A: -and at that point, the quadripartite agreement, that group, was made into the
Federal Inter-Agency River Basin Committee, with the position of chairman
rotating among the four agencies.
Right.
And Michael Strauss was involved in it as the Commissioner of Reclamation,
Michael Strauss came down from
following John Page and Harry
being Under Secretary of the Department of the Interior to be commissioner
because he thought it would be more fun than being an understudy to Harold
Uh-huh.
A: Of course, he stepped into membership on FIREBRICK, and that's how we had
all those functions, and we also had a water resources committee in the
department that had responsibility for coordinating the views of the other
agencies in Interior.
Were you getting involved also with the Soil Conservation Service at this time,
or was it strictly Bureau
Corps of Engineers type?
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