Theodore M.
So anyway, when I met with Mr.
we eventually discussed the subject of
salary of the executive director. There was another Quadrennial Commission
report coming up, and he suggested that it seemed obvious that they were going
to make some recommendations for
What sort of commission-I'm sorry, what was this?
A: The Quadrennial Commission is what they called the Commission on Executive
Pay, which has just recently made some new recommendations-that's what
they used to call it. Now, I don't know whether they still call it that or not. I
think somebody did call it that in the newspaper article. It has a long name.
Well, anyway, that was in the mill, and he felt sure that the level IV would be
a promotion for me. The executive level V was the same as grade 18, and so
it seemed obvious that there would be a promotion.
As soon as I met with Mr.
I found that we had an almost immediate
rapport. But I have to mention one thing; someone had told me that he had had
polio. He walked with a limp, the same as I do. All my life I'd wanted to find
somebody whose left foot was smaller than their right foot, especially size 11
or
in the hopes that we could buy two pairs of shoes and split them
my right foot is smaller than my left foot. But unfortunately Chuck's
polio was in the right leg also. He was attacked by the polio just about a year
before I was when we were both babies.
I guess I'm just being facetious bringing that up. But we did have a good
rapport. He had come out of the Interior Department having been in the
Bonneville Power Administration when I was in the Pacific Northwest. We
knew a lot of the same people and he knew and loved the Northwest just as I
did. We both knew and liked Scoop Jackson. He had been my congressman
when I lived in Seattle, and when I came back to Washington I still voted in
Seattle until the District of Columbia residents were able to vote. Of course,
I had worked with him when he was a member of the Senate Select Committee.
One of the interesting things that Scoop did that I was involved in was he
brought young lawyers back to work with the Interior Committee. He brought
Tom Foley back, and he brought Bill Van Ness back, and one of the first
things he usually did was send them over to talk to me at the Library about
water resources, so I got to know and work with Tom Foley, for example.
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