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Another Republican, a former senior Interior official, is less charitable. He agrees that "Watt is a bright, articulate, God-fearing man." But each virtue has a dark side: "He is also narrow, vindictive and arrogant." Unfortunately for Watt, it is the latter qualities for which he has become best known; it looks as though his antagonists will have James Watt to kick around for some time to come. And he them.
— By Kurt Andersen.
Reported by Steven Holmes/ Los Angeles and Gary Lee/ Washington