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their own wells. 



Sharp: And they got going pretty fast. 



Revelle: Yes, that's right. 



Sharp: I have a couple of specific questions. This is a letter that you 

 sent to Leona Baumgartner at AID.* You set out quite a few 

 different projects that AID might support. I thought we nxight 

 just talk about the implementation, the big plan, of the panel's 

 ideas, and what the future looked like in terms of AID support for 

 the work that resulted from the panel's investigation. 



Revelle: Say that again. 



Sharp: I thought we just might talk about what you had in mind for AID to 

 do and how it all occurred after '63, after the recommendations 

 were made. 



Revelle: [after leafing through papers] Where are the questions? I don't 



see the questions in here. The ten research questions. [reading 

 from materials] "The project should be broken down into five 

 categories: health and nutrition, agriculture and economic and 

 social research, education and communication and engineering." 

 "Enclosed." We don't have the enclosure [here]. 



By that time Leona was one of the assistant administrators 

 of AID. I guess she was sort of in charge of the research part of 

 AID. 



This project was carried out to some extent over AID's dead 

 body. They had to put up all the money, but they didn't like it 

 very well because it was a bunch of amateurs getting into their 

 business. I remember one aspect of this was that Dean Peterson, 

 who later became one of my very good friends, was at that time 

 professor of engineering at Utah State University. He later 

 became vice president for research at Utah State and more recently 

 has spent a lot of time in India with AID — he wrote a letter to 

 a senator con^laining about this bunch of amateurs getting 

 involved with the serious problems of West Pakistan. 



The senator forwarded the letter, as was typical, of course, 

 to Jerry Wiesner, who wrote an indignant reply back to Dr. 

 Peterson and said, "You ought to find out more about it before you 

 criticize. " 



So he did find out more about it and he became one of our 

 most loyal and enthusiastic supporters. We have been very good 

 friends ever since. I'm very fond of him. 



Sharp: There are a couple of exchanges between you and Bob Burden and 

 some of the other people who were really doing a lot of the 

 writing of the report. 



