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‘THE trouble with environmentalists,” you might if you ever meet him-suggest to Secretary Watt, “is that they suffer from an insufficiency of ideological zeal.” (Pause, for greater effect.) “Really—you see, they refuse to carry their ideas to the necessary conclusions. After all, extremism in the pursuit of virtue is no vice.” At this point the stuffed moosehead will probably fall from the wall behind the Secretary’s desk, but you are now ready to expound a most satisfying argument.

It’s not mine; it belongs to Lester O’Shea, a San Francisco real-estate investor and Republican County Central Committee chairman, who has written a book called Tampering with The Machinery: Roots of Political and Economic Malaise (McGraw-Hill, $11.95), to which William E. Simon has contributed a Foreword. Here, in brief, is O’Shea’s thesis:

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Chilton Williamson Jr.

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‘THE trouble with environmentalists,” you might if you ever meet him-suggest to Secretary Watt, “is that they suffer from an insufficiency of ideological zeal.” (Pause, for greater effect.) “Really—you see, they refuse to carry their ideas to the necessary conclusions. After all, extremism in the pursuit of virtue is no vice.” At this point the stuffed moosehead will probably fall from the wall behind the Secretary’s desk, but you are now ready to expound a most satisfying argument.

It’s not mine; it belongs to Lester O’Shea, a San Francisco real-estate investor and Republican County Central Committee chairman, who has written a book called Tampering with The Machinery: Roots of Political and Economic Malaise (McGraw-Hill, $11.95), to which William E. Simon has contributed a Foreword. Here, in brief, is O’Shea’s thesis: