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environmental issues as much as you were? Or was that mainly your voice? How would you characterize it?

Well, I certainly don't want to claim a monopoly on that kind of comment --

No, but I'm genuinely curious whether other people --

I think surely other people were writing this kind of thing, too. I don't want to sound self-serving, but I can't call up names of other writers on this subject in the general press. Tony Lewis certainly did, occasionally in the Times. Certainly, in any environmental publication, naturally there was no shortage of articles on this type of subject, carrying this message. But if what you're asking is if it was in the press, generally, I'm sure there were, and I really don't want to try to claim to have been a unique voice, because I'm sure I was not. I'm trying desperately right now to think of names of other people, like Bernard de Voto in Harper's magazine during the 50s, but, by this time, he was gone. They just don't come to mind, but I honestly think that the honest answer to your question is that, sure, there were other people. There were other newspapers that generally were taking a strongly, what I would call “pro-environmental” as well as “anti- Reagan” position. But I honestly, at this moment can't pinpoint them. But the usual papers would take this kind of position. I'm sure they were going strong at it, and these were such papers as the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, papers like the Milwaukee Journal, the Louisville Courier-Journal. Surely they were, but it's hard for me to pinpoint because I simply don't have those names in my mind. [Interruption]

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