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...good to have TIME'S thorough coverage of the "Land Sale of the Century" [Aug. 23]. President Reagan and Interior Secretary James Watt have the courage and understanding to deal with the Government's tendency to acquire property and hold it long after the federal need for it is gone...
Your story objectively presented both sides of the land controversy. Unfortunately, Secretary Watt's cavalier treatment of conservationists' honest concerns has called his motives into question. I doubt that he will ever be trusted to serve what environmentalists perceive to be the best interests of the nation...
...favor, but he was still uneasy about the tax bill. "I couldn't quite imagine people in my district slapping me on the back and saying, 'Hey, thanks for raising my taxes.'" Treasury Secretary Donald Regan called, as did Caspar Weinberger of Defense and James Watt of Interior. The White House's political operatives pointed out that with his Democratic opponent having recently been arrested for drunk-driving, Hartnett faced an easy election this fall. "Come on, Tommy," they insisted, "you can afford this vote." Two hours before balloting began, Energy Secretary James Edwards, a fellow...
Senator Simpson thinks Watt will keep his job as long as he wants it. But he understands his friend's central problem: inflexibility of almost heroic proportions. "He has never been in [electoral] politics," Simpson explains. "He has never been through the forging process when you're getting your hide torn off, and you have something you really believe in. He has never learned how you compromise on an issue without compromising yourself...
Another Republican, a former senior Interior official, is less charitable. He agrees that "Watt is a bright, articulate, God-fearing man." But each virtue has a dark side: "He is also narrow, vindictive and arrogant." Unfortunately for Watt, it is the latter qualities for which he has become best known; it looks as though his antagonists will have James Watt to kick around for some time to come. And he them...