Theodore M.
their share of the work, but I was not able to defuse this argument between the
two representatives of the Department of the Interior. I hate to bring this up
because it was such a nasty personal fight, and it kept us in a turmoil. I was
down there only for a couple of months, working in Theodore Roosevelt's
former house with a bay window on Jackson Place overlooking Lafayette
Square.
The way we finally resolved this conflict within the department was that Stuart
Udall appointed Roger
as his science advisor, and he became the
departmental representative. I had no problem at all working with Roger
Revelle. In fact, he was wonderful to work with and was a very staunch
supporter of my work. My only problem was that I never could get any work
out of him. I had to write all of his stuff because he would promise to write
something and wouldn't do it, but he gave me the ideas. I've had that happen
to me many other times. But anyway, so I was down there working very hard
on that in 1962, and that report on federal water resources research activities
was eventually sent up to Senator Anderson's committee. It was published as
a committee print.
That was another antecedent of the Water Resources Research Act. There's a
provision in the Water Resources Research Act calling for coordination of
water resources research activities, and Jerry Weisner asked me to stay
and chair it for the first year, but I wanted to get back to my work at the
Library, so they got Bill
from Illinois.
One of the reasons why I asked you about the multiobjective system that the
Harvard Water Program came up with is because in the water bill that was
passed in 1970, the Congress directed the Water Resources Council to develop
the principles and standards in accordance with four categories or what were
later called "accounts" -national economic development, environmental
quality, social well-being, and regional development.
Do you have any knowledge about whether the multiobjective approach that
came out of the Harvard Water Program influenced Congress to direct the
Water Resources Council to prepare the principles and standards
those
lines? I'm trying to see whether there was at any time direct cause and effect,
of course, between the theoretical approaches being developed at Harvard and
the latter planning guides that come out of the Water Resources Council.
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