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<br />he should have throughout Congress as its senior member and
<br />Senate Appropriations Committee chairman. Why? I don't know.
<br />You'll have to ask him. Many prominent Arizonans have pleaded
<br />with him for help in this hour of need. Nothing productive has
<br />been forthcoming; no action either on the Senate side. And I
<br />am not talking ..bout the period of his recent illness, for which
<br />I am genuinely sorry'."
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<br />(The ArizomL Republic, defending Senator Hayden, said one
<br />did not need a crystal ball to figure out why the senator "wasn't
<br />overly active" in behalf of the legislation. The original CAP
<br />had been expanded to a "vast regional project" by the Udall
<br />brothers, said the RC]JH7J7ic, to placate California and keep it
<br />Democratic. "Needless to say, they have some support," said
<br />the newspaper. "Other Arizona politicians and water experts,
<br />both Republican and Democrat, both on the state and the national
<br />scene, went along with the Udall plan. After all, they spoke for
<br />the Kennedy administration, and it was before the tragedy of
<br />Dallas that the decision on a regional approach was made. At
<br />this point, Senator Hayden apparently said, 'Go ahead and play
<br />the game your way. Get the bill through the House and I'll get
<br />it through the Senate.''' The bill, however, never got to the
<br />Senate. Senator Hayden, said the RC]J1Iblic, "might have been
<br />able to secure passage of the Central Arizona Project, but (he)
<br />simply wasn't allowed to play the game as he wanted to.")
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<br />Mr. Mehren offered three alternative courses of action for
<br />Arizona: (1) Try to get a CAP bill passed in the next Congress
<br />without the dams, paying for the project with revenues from
<br />Parker, Hoover and Davis Dams. (2) Create a state authority
<br />empowered by the legislature to go it alone. (3) Cooperation
<br />of Arizona's congressional delegation with the other Basin states
<br />on separate but subsequent legislation to bring additional water
<br />into the Colorado River for a final solution of the water problem.
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<br />A Plan for 1967
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<br />In Phoenix, meanwhile, Congressmen Udall and Rhodes met
<br />with the Arizona Interstate Stream Commission to talk strategy.
<br />They agreed to make a fresh start in the next Congress and to
<br />cancel all interstate commitments made in the course of trying
<br />to put the regional bill through that year. The bill to be intro-
<br />duced in 1967 should be a simple one, they agreed-perhaps
<br />along the lines of the CAP bill passed by the Senate in the 1950's.
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<br />The water strategists left open the possibility that Arizona
<br />might decide to go it alone with a bare-bones project-a pump-
<br />ing station to lift water out of Lake Havasu and a series of canals
<br />to bring it to central and south-central Arizona.' Such an ap-
<br />proach might trigger lawsuits that would tie Arizona up for
<br />another four or five years, Congressman Udall warned, although
<br />he promised to support it if that was the state's decision.
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<br />Analyzing the 1966 setback in Congress, Mr. Udall said,
<br />"We tried to do what California, Representative Aspinall (chair-
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