putting a brake on the Mitch Snyder era takeover of DC’s public places by the street peopleSadly, that fraud, Snyder, won.
Jim Watt was one of the people most responsible for saving Union Station, which the Carter bozos had ruined with “the pit,” for reclaiming Lafayette Square and for putting a brake on the Mitch Snyder era takeover of DC’s public places by the street people. The Secretary of the Interior holds a lot of power when it comes to public lands, and DC is chock full of public lands. (The NPS is part of DOI.) A Secretary of the Interior who is willing to damn the torpedoes and wade right in can have a big impact in DC, and Jim Watt did.
He is also the wit who observed that you don’t have to go to Russia to see the failures of socialism; just go to an Indian reservation. The left HATED him for that, but it was of course true.
He was a pillar of the Western land rights movement, which pushed back against the idea that the Western states, much of which are owned by the fedgov, should be managed primarily as recreational areas for vacationing bicoastal liberals.
“He was a pillar of the Western land rights movement, which pushed back against the idea that the Western states, much of which are owned by the fedgov, should be managed primarily as recreational areas for vacationing bicoastal liberals.”
putting a brake on the Mitch Snyder era takeover of DC’s public places by the street peopleSadly, that fraud, Snyder, won.
Watt lived in Lusk Wyoming and was 75 miles from the worst of the Indian reservations.
Oglala Lakota...pine ridge.
It had the deadliest one mile highway in the US.
Between pine ridge and White Clay nebr.
Booze wasn’t allowed on the rez but one mile away in white Clay it was