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When Carr’s friend, the GSA administrator, found out that Dominy had sneaked a new building into a bill that nominally authorized only dams, he was apoplectic. When Carr found out soon thereafter that Dominy had immediately signed a $250,000 design agreement without his approval, he was beside himself. Carr forgot, however, that Dominy had been clever enough to make a friend in every strategic place; and there was no more strategic place in the Interior Building than the mailroom. Stewart Udall was out of town, making a speech, but he was indignant when he learned from Carr how Dominy had ...more
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Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water
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