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...Perfidy." Now enter Udall's Reclamation Commissioner Floyd E. Dominy, who looked downriver toward Lake Mead and Hoover Dam, major power source for the Lower Basin states of Arizona and California. Lake Mead, too, was suffering from a water shortage. After studying the stream flow forecasts, Dominy last month decided that Hoover Dam could not maintain the surface storage of 14.5 million acre-feet that it needs...
...recommendation, Udall ordered Glen Canyon's gates opened. That was like pulling the plug on one bathtub and letting the water drain into another (see map). In this case, the Glen Canyon water flowed, at 18,000 cu. ft. per sec., 370 miles downriver to Lake Mead and Hoover Dam. The water is still running, which is fine for the folks in Phoenix and Los Angeles. But the water loss to the Upper Basin is drying up Lake Powell, and with it the hopes there for new electric power in the near future...
...rated so critical in Washington that the President called in his top security advisers. On hand at the White House on the night before Johnson's departure were Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert Mc-Namara, Secret Service Chief Jim Rowley and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. The question before them: Should the President cancel his trip...
...Edgar Hoover, Richard Nixon, George Meany, and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy '48 got theirs, too. Kennedy, she charged, has a "vendetta against Hoffa and the Communist Party" and should by no means be nominated for the Vice-Presidency...
Most inherited their faith. Five of the first ten Presidents were Episcopalian because in Virginia, where they were born, the Anglican church was the established church. Four were sons of preachers: Episcopalian Chester Arthur (son of a Baptist), Presbyterians Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson, and Quaker Herbert Hoover. William Howard Taft, the last of four Unitarians to reach the White House, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, the most recent of nine Episcopalians to become Chief Executive, were active in church affairs all their lives. Calvin Coolidge (the only Congregationalist President) and Dwight Eisenhower (who was reared in a sect called...