Theodore
copy and everybody put their surname to show approval. Sometimes it was all
the way down the side and around the bottom--15 or 20 people.
or 5:00 A.M., everyone was about ready to go
About
but we had
to have another run of the long letter so we would have enough copies. Mrs.
Dalton was typing it, and Jack Dixon turned to me and said, "Oh, Ted, would
you mind taking Mrs. Dalton home when she finishes typing that other copy?"
Of course, I said, "Yes." And then he said, "Thank you, Ted, and by the way.
You always come in early. Don't you come in at quarter to eight?" And I said,
"Well, usually.
And he said, "Would you, first thing then, take this letter down to Secretary
Davidson's office and get him to surname it and then get it into the secretary's
office before 9:00 A.M.?" Here it was obvious I wasn't going to get away from
that place until about 6:00 A.M., and then he expected me to come in before
I don't think I made it that morning. But it was a fact that the office
A.M. and we worked until 4:
hours started at
but I was usually there
or 6:00 P.M.
until
Let
me see if we can go back and pick up a few things, because you are saying
some things that I think I understand, and I think a lot of readers of this
transcript might understand, but on the other hand, there are going to be those
who need to be filled in on a few details.
So what you're talking about, of course, is a conflict that existed between the
Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation, particularly focusing on
Western water development. Can you explain what was the nature of the
conflict, specifically in relationship to Hells Canyon? Why did the Bureau of
Reclamation feel it urgent to get the report in before the Corps?
Chief Joseph Dam
A: Well, let me go back a little bit earlier than that to one of the first ones that
came up, I think in 1946, and that was Chief Joseph Dam on the Columbia
River. Now, the Bureau had built Grand Coulee but was just getting started on
the irrigation part of the Columbia Basin project, and the Bureau was using the
power revenues to subsidize irrigation development. You could never build any
of those expensive irrigation projects without power revenues to subsidize
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