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no competition, you would have drained one lake and said, “Now get all the salt there is here out, fill it up again and go on.” But that isn't the kind of life we live. I remember hearing him testify and thinking how abstract he was and how he didn't have to think about property rights. He was very earnest and simple, just thinking about the thing as a technician thinks about it, not as a person charged with responsibility for people's lives and property, as well as the public interest.

Reformers often forget about property rights. If you hold office a while you don't forget that you have responsibility for property rights too. Property is essential to men's lives, health and happiness. Once you get that idea you begin to see the relationship between the protection and development of persons and the protection and development of property. They're not antagonistic. The art is to make the two of them coordinating and cooperating so that you don't have any conflict.

I've seen situations where it was worked out so that the protection of life, the protection of health and the protection of property were one and the same thing. One of the great places for that is the Eastman Kodak Company. I never would have seen that there if it hadn't been for





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