"Everybody has talked about conservation but, as Mark Twain said about the weather, nobody has done very much about it." This wry remark was made last week by James Schlesinger in an interview with TIME, just before he was put in charge of the Carter Administration's energy policies. Schlesinger, the intellectual James-of-all-trades for the Nixon and Ford administrations, repeated the line at Carter's press conference and, untypically, botched it slightly.* But he still made his point about the energy crisis: "We are going to try to do something about it."
Talking with TIME Correspondent Don Sider, Schlesinger described his job as a...
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