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With James Watt in charge, the Interior Department means business...
...This is 5% of the Government's land holdings and constitutes an area the size of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts combined. If the first five-year plan is successful, the Government may decide to sell more in the future. Both President Reagan and his Interior Secretary James Watt are convinced that the U.S. owns far more land than it needs or can manage. And both believe that unneeded land should be turned over to private owners...
...very arrogance: Stockman is still in office despite his iconoclastic admissions, so is Raymond Donovan, in the face of continuing allegations of gangland associations: and so are William Casey and William French Smith, in spite of disclosure of their financial mixdealings. And there is no sign that James Watt is on the way out, despite the furor over his letter to Israeli Ambassaror Moshe Areins which somewhat to blackmail American Jews into supporting his slash and burn land use policies Reagan seems confident that his adoring fans will forgive members of his supporting cast...
...Watt's basic plan for leasing the Outer Continental Shelf has been known for more than a year. Late last month he approved a "revised" version of the leasing scheme, offering 25 times the offshore area that has been available for exploitation since the program began in 1954. Seven conservation groups, as well as the states of California and Alaska, have filed suit to prevent or modify the expansive scheme...
Typically, Watt never bothered to tell White House operatives that he was about to announce a go-ahead for the politically troublesome plan. Despite his propensity for imbroglios, says one Reagan aide, Watt "is not in trouble with the President." The aide thinks Watt is too confrontational. The boss's view? "The President," he sighs, "doesn't mind...