BOARD01799

• Board Meeting Date: 9/8/1961
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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Clyde and Commissioner Johnson. And, of
course, without the support of New Mexi.co to
this resolution it could not be passed. The
many amendments which New Mexico proposed con-
tinued until about 12:15 P. M. At that time
the Chairman of the Commission announced that
he thought the Commission should adjourn for
lunch. Governor Johnson objected, however, and
stated that the Commission should stay in
session until the resolution was adopted. New
Mexico kept offering amendments and at about
1:15 P. M. the Chairman of the Commission
announced that he was adjourning for lunch.

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I tried to contact Commissioner Johnson and
found that he had immediately departed for some
downtown destination. I then stationed some of
the members of our staff around this building
and the State Office Building and asked them
if they could find Governor Johnson to urge him
to meet with me in my office. Shortly before
2:00 P. M. one of our engineers contacted Com-
missioner Johnson and he came to my office
upstairs. The meeting was to reconvene at
2:00 P. M. At that time, when Commissioner
Johnson was in my office, I begged him to post-
pone action on the resolution at least a few
hours until we could have time to prepare amend-
ments which would not embarass the position of
Governor McNichols or Congressman Aspinall. I
then gave Commissioner Johnson a copy of a
letter which Governor McNichols had previously
written to various members of the Arizona con-
gressional delegation, to the Governor of Ari-
zona and to the Arizona Interstate Stream
Commission, informing them of the position of
this Board and requesting their utmost assist-
ance to carry out the resolution which this
Board had adopted. I asked Governor Johnson
to read the letter and tendered it to him. He
refused to read it and stated that he did not
want to see it.

At that time I had a confidential state-
ment from Congressman Aspinall stating his
position in the United States Congress. I stated
that under the circumstances I felt sure that