Theodore M.
Some of the others had come in and out. Henry Vaux was one of the first ones
hired and had gone to the University of California to take an academic position
and complete work on his Ph.D. The names don't all come back to me, but
others had come in and out. Lyle Craine had gone back to Michigan and had
been replaced by Dean Mann, and then later Dean Mann had to go back to his
academic job and Gary Taylor carried on there. We had the most trouble
keeping staff in the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division. But we had a
really good staff and they worked hard, but at the end I had to be the one to put
the report into final form.
Howard had a major difference with the commission on the cost-sharing policy
on inland waterways. Howard felt that the federal government should pay at
least half the cost. The commission's recommendations were blunt. It believed
that there is no reason that the federal government should be subsidizing
transportation of goods and passengers who should be able to pay their own
way. So the commission's recommendation was that only if the waterway was
needed for national security should federal money be expended on improvement
of inland waterways. I think it kind of broke Howard's heart when he lost an
argument with the commission on that subject. So Howard Cook decided to
retire; he was 68 years old, and his wife had wanted him to retire much earlier
because she had already retired from
Lothrop. Howard had
stayed on because he wanted to help me. He was very loyal to me.
It was near the end of the commission's life, the staff was dwindling, and I had
the job of finishing up the report. We had hired an editor from Bonneville
Power Administration named Mike Katz, who came in and worked for the
commission for about a year. He was a good editor, and I think an awful lot
of the credit for the good writing in that report goes to Mike Katz.
When it finally got down to the last few months, I took a few short cuts that I
was able to do because I had contacts with the Joint Committee on Printing.
The Government Printing Office is supposed to be responsible for printing all
government reports. I couldn't see how we were going to get the report done
before the beginning of summer if we couldn't bypass the Government Printing
Office's red tape.
I had scheduled completion of the report for June, even though we had until
September 26 to finish, for several reasons. One reason was that I wasn't sure
that we had enough money to run through the summer. We had enough money
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