We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.

Babbitt has attracted the ire of some environmentalists and Native American groups for his representation of the Arizona Snowbowl ski resort and its effort to expand the resort and use waste water to make artificial snow. Bruce Edward Babbitt (born June 27 1938) a Democrat served as United States Secretary of the Interior and as the 16th governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987. Among his proposals was a national sales tax to remedy the then-record budget deficits piled up during the several past administrations.