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In the end, he wrote a blistering eighteen-page letter to the Corps accusing it of “computational manipulation” and of ignoring the environment; then, exercising his gubernatorial discretion, he vetoed the dam. According to friends, Carter was deeply incensed by the Corps’ reliance on deception to justify the dam; as an Annapolis graduate, he didn’t believe a military unit would do such a thing.
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
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