We are the number one economy in the world, and we ought to continue to pursue those kinds of policies that ensure that we maintain that position, like innovation and like technology and like education and like just research and development and discovery.

Evans expressed sympathy but did nothing to intervene. a large independent energy company now based in Denver. In 1975 Evans moved to Midland Texas from Houston and began working on an oil rig for Tom Brown Inc.

He was appointed by his longtime friend George W. Donald Louis Evans (born July 27 1946) was the 34th U.