NATURAL RESOURCES POLICY, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STYLE

1. The honorarium offered is positively indexed to speaking time and the program committee has generously allowed 3 hours for the Bill Lesher/Garrey Carruthers show. Their foresight will, of course, cause the usual economic response. We will take the 3 hours, which will further help Bill and I defray the rather high cost of representing your interests in the expensive restaurants and cabarets of Washington. 2. Economics is the name of the game in Washington, D.C., in this Administration, and I wanted to give you a flavor for some upcoming natural resources policy, Department of the Interior style. 3. My being here is the strictest application of Gilmer's law of political leadership, which states: "Look over your shoulder from time to time to be sure someone is