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And on those water projects that Carter wants to kill—Ford's own budget man tried to get him to slash them, but when he saw they were all started, a red flag went up in the back of his mind. "I said we might as well finish them. But then we should lay down a policy of no new starts ... I'll bet you before they are through, every one of the projects will be complete, and it will be more expensive because they stopped construction and then resumed it ... They had lots of ideas about what they were going to do and it sounded good on the campaign trail."
Indeed, it sounds a little like the campaign trail at Thunderbird, with a martini over ice and not an enemy in the world, not even Jimmy Carter. Don't get him wrong, says the former President, "I am not sitting here scheming to get back and be President." But he does like to imagine how it all might be...