presents the bill. How come you do me like you do? You can ask it of 

 anyone. It has all kinds of implications. It's good for any occasion. It 

 is a _g,uestion for all seasons. I think it may have some relevance to the 

 kinds of things that you talked about during the last couple of days. I 

 understand that you were given the opportunity, and I think I can say in 

 all honesty, that it was a rare privilege to hear from Frank Gregg, from 

 The Bureau of Land Management. He's an extraordinary person who is 

 one of those luckless individuals: a bureaucrat who lives in Washington, 

 whose opportunity in fact, to win one occasionally is almost nonexistent. 

 He has one of those jobs for which there is no measure of success. And 

 yet he, like so many others who inhabit that center of the universe on the 

 Potomac, does it with great cheer, extraordinary competence and as I 

 think you may of learned from hearing from him today, great conviction. 

 He's an extraordinary individual and I am privileged to be a fellow director 

 and a friend of his. I think he sometimes asks people, "How come you do 

 me like you do?" 



You've talked about a number of things. You've talked about the 

 Sagebrush Rebellion, a major issue. You've talked about somewhat lesser 

 things, animal damage control. You've talked about steel shot and you've 

 talked about the future of hunting and you've talked about matters that 

 are important to you, people who live some distance away from the center 

 of the universe--that place in Washington where it appears that the 

 attention of the world is constantly focused, where it seems that people 

 are preoccupied with doing things for us and to us. Washington, 

 unfortunately, is something akin to the center of the world. And I think 

 there's no denying it. It is a place where momentous decisions are made. 

 Where extraordinary responsibilities are borne more or less well. How is it 

 that a thing that can happen in Iran seven or eight months ago become the 

 epicenter of activity in Washington where there is concern about an 

 economy that is made of at once of recession and inflation? It's an 

 extraordinary combination that seems to defy economic analysis. It's a 

 place where in fact, perhaps the attention of the world is focused, if not 

 the proper expression of the reality that would make it in fact the center 

 of the world, because it is not really the pivot of the universe. I come 

 away from it frequently because I enjoy coming out to places like Montana 

 and stopping in Salt Lake City and reading the newspaper. And stopping 

 in St. Louis and reading two newspapers and if I get the chance, I'll read 

 the newspaper from Butte, Montana because it reflects a reality that does 

 not enjoy absolute accuracy and completely unbiased representation in 

 Washington. 



But I think it's fair to point out that some of these things can be 

 categorized under answers to the questions of "How come you do me like 

 you do?" Those answers may be found in Washington and I'd like to share 

 some thoughts about what that may be and what those things may mean to 

 you in Montana and the intermountain West, a place where it's quiet and 

 relatively peaceful and clean and attractive--at least for now. 



There's an interesting thing that has occurred in the last couple of 

 decades which I think is at least a partial explanation for a couple of the 

 phenomena that you have identified in your sessions, one of them being 

 the Sagebrush Rebellion. Times have changed in the United States. Most 



