Water Resources People and Issues
Offset?
No, I'm talking about the pictures. They're all in two colors.
Q .. Duo-tint?
Yes, duo-tint. There's a blue and a black press run on all of those pictures.
Gives a nice effect, and it's much cheaper than color printing. Anyway, it was
all ready for them to print when we gave it to the Government Printing Office.
for the pictures, which is one of those things that has to be done because
they're set separately. By the next Tuesday we had a printed copy of all of the
pages, not bound, for us to check before they proceeded with the binding. The
next day we had a few paper-bound copies of the report, and on Thursday we
got a few tons of reports almost a week before we needed them. But in the
meantime, the White House had canceled the meeting. Just a joke-1 told the
commissioners that Nixon was so engaged in Watergate he didn't want to have
anything to do with anything on his calendar that had the word water in it.
(Laughter)
So we never had a meeting with Nixon to present the report. But we did go
ahead and schedule hearings on the Hill toward the end of June-By that time
the summary report had been written. This was the report which I had been
hoping would be the main report, with the big report as the appendix, but the
commissioners felt it would detract from the words they had struggled with so
long in the main report. The summary broke the study down into the seven
themes summarizing the studies, making it more readable in a smaller book
which you can hold in your hand instead of the five pounds of the main report.
At the hearing the report was not too well received. Scoop Jackson was
flabbergasted, as was Frank Church, that the commission didn't recommend
against interbasin transfers. They were shocked because they were sure, now
that the commission had two more members from the Pacific Northwest, that
it would oppose interbasin transfers. I should have mentioned the second
change in the membership of the commission in which Clyde Ellis and Sam
Baxter were dumped. Sam Baxter was a lifelong Republican from Philadelphia.
He was replaced by Jim Murphy, who had been a Republican National
Committee member from Montana. Clyde Ellis was replaced by Jim Ellis, who
was the mastermind in Seattle Metro. This gave us two more Northwesterners
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