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Show 44 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER There was reason to wonder if Warren's stand re- flected his true convictions. He had been a power in the presidential campaign of General Eisenhower. It was not a secret that Warren, himself, possessed a con- suming desire for a high national post. If he was re- warded with an appointment, perhaps to the President's Cabinet, he would need confirmation by the Senate. Clearly, antagonizing the powerful senators who favored the crsp, would not help him to get it. Whatever Warren's private thoughts were, the con- troversy between him and the Colorado River Board was resolved when Mr. Eisenhower appointed him Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. The new governor, Goodwin J. Knight, was willing to accept the advice of the state's water and power experts, and the analysis of the Colorado River Board's engineers quickly became the official views of California on the crsp.55 They were dispatched to the new Secretary of the Interior, Douglas McKay, and the battle line be- tween the Upper Basin states and California was at last firmly delineated. Before the departure of Warren, however, significant events had taken place under the gathering clouds of war. With a draft of the crsp bill in hand, the forces of the Upper Basin had descended on Washington.56 They huddled with Upper Basin senators and repre- sentatives, and met several times with Secretary McKay, who soon was to win from the Democrats the nickname of "Give-away Doug." One of the visitors to the Capital from the Upper Basin was John Geoffry Will, secretary and general counsel of the Upper Colorado River Basin Committee which had drafted the crsp bill. Will had been for years |