I was, rewarded, for my services on the pesticide committee, by being in charge of a committee to investigate whether you could stop the boll weevil from coming in to Arizona from Mexico. And there the big hope was the technique if you flooded Mexico with sterile males that no young boll weevils would be born and Arizona would be saved. And Arizona had an ancient senator who had requested to Kennedy that Arizona needed health protection from the boll weevil. Because once the boll weevil came in they just don’t know how many million dollars more the common farmers were going to spend on pesticides. So, you know, that was the-
Conclusion?
Well, then there were, you know, then there was a very, was integrated pest management, small plots don’t ask me to remember, promoted by a professor at he was the university come from probably Davidson, a very good guy, who was put on the boll weevil committee. And you know, I wanted someone who, whereas the boll weevil committee was located in State College, Mississippi, with Jamie Whitman who was head of the agriculture appropriations Department of Congress. He ran agriculture. The president had nothing to say about any aspect of his budget. And so if you were fighting the boll weevil, we did it in Mississippi, which at that time was weak in science. But Jamie’s, I remember her niece, Jamie’s niece, she worked there. So, you know, it was, but a congressman’s whole job is in contracts.