Theodore M.
water lawyers. Aside from this instance, I generally gave each division chief
a free hand in staffing his unit, within the limits of the budget.
Was Gary Hart one of your lawyers?
No, but he made a study for us. The star of the legal staff was Charlie Myers,
on detail from Stanford for about a year. Charlie Myers was a very dynamic
individual, very, very conservative, an arch-Republican. He was originally
from Texas, where he had gone to law school, and was a professor of law at
Stanford. He was topnotch and dominated the legal staff.
Was he a friend of Linsley's?
A: Not really. Linsley was at Stanford and knew Charlie, but they were not
especially friendly. I think Phil Glick recruited Charlie. Phil's primary role was
in recruiting a topnotch staff. With all due respect, Phil Glick was more of an
executive lawyer. He knew how to find people and how to interpret other
people's work, but he was detached from the report production line. Charlie
more or less took it over and helped with the completion of the final report. I
think Phil was on leave for a long time after an operation.
What did Gary Hart do?
A: Gary Hart was engaged. to do a study on the river basin commissions which was
eventually published. We had a hard time getting him to finish it because he
went to work on George McGovern's campaign.
You were talking about how the staff was hired, but what interests me is how
the staff, including the in-house staff as well as the contractors, developed the
voluminous number of studies in really a relatively short period of time. You
must have had quite an administrative problem of handling all that sort of stuff.
A: Yes, I did. At one time I remember telling the staff that, "All I can do is
facilitate the work and get the money and whatever else you need to do it, and
I don't really have the time to put a lot of intellectual capital into the theory
and the policy.
Howard and I worked very long hours, and we had some other hard working
staff people.
Koelzer told me that he woke up at four o'clock in the
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