Theodore
Q: Well, if I understand you correctly, then, your reports were generated three
different ways: internally from your own staff, by contractors who were hired
on contract, and finally through committees of experts. Is that right?
A: That's right.
Q: Okay, thank you, I just wanted to clarify that.
A: Well, it took a lot out of me and I was glad when it was over. I needed a rest.
So I drafted a letter for Chuck
to send me on June
telling me my
services were no longer required because the reports were finished and they'd
had the first hearing. This put me on the retirement rolls on June
I didn't
get any money for a long time, but I did get the benefit of what I believe was
a percent increase effective July 1.
Q: You never considered going back to the Library of Congress?
A: No. For one thing I was at the executive level IV, and it would have been a
step down. I didn't really want to go back, but if somebody had twisted my
arm and said, "Ted, we really need you, I might have. I think I told you I've
never gone out to apply for a job after the first time with the Corps of
Engineers and taking civil service examinations to become a junior engineer.
I guess I really didn't know how to get a job.
My wife told me that I should get a job in some completely different field to
unwind. She thought I was beat from that last three months of
weeks.
She could see what it had taken out of me, and I would have never been able
to do it if it hadn't been for the support that she gave me.
One thing happened that I regret. When my elder daughter was a teenager, we
had time to go camping and climbing together and I took her out West on
mountain climbing trips several times. We did a lot of things together. But
during this five years of the water commission, my second daughter became a
teenager and we didn't have time to do as many things together. I never got to
take her out West on a climbing trip. Of course, she did it all on her own and
ended up as the chairman of the Explorer Scout Troop which did a lot of
caving and climbing and bicycling. This is the co-ed upper level of the Boy
Scouts. She did all that on her own. She didn't need me. But still I regret that
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