I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.
I am not denying anything I did not say.
You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.
First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously.
And look, I was a big, brassy guy who won and won big. I did what I wanted.
So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington.