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legislation before, and Johnson was quite right about this.

We then suggested to Senator Johnson that maybe he would sign an article that we would place in the New York Times Magazine section telling about the need for desalinization of water, as it would be a popular article and was a need that could be widely understood. He thought that was a good idea and desalinization was a topic in his campaign, particularly in the West.

Kennedy picked up this area and talked about it, too, and as Lloyd writes me in December 8th of '60, “We are pushing it into Johnson's speeches.”

The article came out--I think I have it here--(Jane, find the article and attach it to this manuscript.)

Before we got the legislation introduced, we published a fact sheet, which was worked on by my sister, Alice Fordyce and Joe Jones, which is called “Facts About Salt-Water Conversion,” and which is, as far as I know, the best summary of this subject even now.

Now, the bill fell into difficulties on the House side because there was a man called Aspinwall who came from a Congressional District in Colorado and knew all about water because he was interested in the Colorado River water. He was meanfull of ideas about what could and could not be done in the desalinization field and was very conservative about it. However, Jones and Lloyd talked to him. When the Kennedy Administratich came in, I talked to Udall and my sister talked to him and he took up the business of increasing the effort in research in the