“I liked Floyd. I trusted him. I thought he would be loyal to me as secretary.” “I liked Stewart. He was a bad administrator, but he had marvelous instincts. He also had guts. He wouldn’t bite a chainsaw, but he had guts.” “Dominy despised Stewart Udall, and Udall regarded him like a rogue elephant. Dominy used to come storming out of Udall’s office and say, ‘Who does he think he is?! The Commissioner of Reclamation?’” “Dominy was the most able bureaucrat I’ve ever known.” “I was amazed by him. He had the constitution of a double ox. He’d be dead drunk at a party at three A.M. and he’d be
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