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I I what happens after the election with reference to those western governors who deserted the west. The "No" votes on the override came principally from large states in the east, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York. In most of the eastern states, we didn't do very well. We did very well, generally, in the west and in the south. The whole proceeding was a charade, an absolute charade. ThePresident eventually signed a bill that was almost the same as he vetoed. As a matter of fact, Congress added some additional funds in the final bill which the President signed which were not in the original bill. The talk about inflation was pure hypocrisy. It was pointed out on the House floor during debate, by Congressman Jim Wright of Texas, and Congressman Bevel of Alabama, that the appropriations that the Presi- dent was complaining about constituted less than one-half of one percent of the bill, yet that less than one-half of one percent was imagined to cause great inflation in this country. The other 99 and a half percent, obviously, was not inflationary. So the whole thing was just a charade. We actually lost very little here in Colorado. In actual appropriations, we lost about a million and a half dollars. We came out with about 15 percent more than what the President had requested. But what we lost did hurt, particularly the Narrows Proj- ect. We lost construction funds for the project for this year at least. The Congress made it very plain to the President that it was going to consider the omitted projects again next year. The President's message to the Congress was sent out at the last minute and upon which a hearing was held in the House, at which about 15 or 20 high administration officials attended, including the Secretary of the Interior, Mr. Andrus; the Director of the OMB, Mr. McIntyre; and the President's inflation-fighting people; and numerous others. They put on a big show and invited all the members of Congress there, and it was a well-attended meeting. They made a number of gross misstate- ments. One of the statements was that this was the first time in four years that any Predient had advocated new starts. That is not so. Just last year, I put out a bulletin to the Board under the date of March 14, 1977, setting forth the Ford budget. That is less than two years ago, not four years ago. I recited that the Ford budget had construction funds for the Dolores, Fruitland Mesa, Dallas Creek, Narrows, and Savery-Pot Hook. Those were the construction funds that President Ford recommended. At the same time, I reported that President Carter was opposed to construction funds for the Dolores, the Fruitland Mesa, the Narrows, and the Savery-Pot Hook. So the statement that President Carter was the first President in four years to advocate new starts is wholly false, yet that information was put. out over the President's signature. In this document that the President issued, it. portrayed the bill passed by Congress as including construction funds for the Savery-Pot Hook and Fruitland Mesa Projects. It did not contain any construction funds -3-