It was actually the Corps of Army Engineers. They commissioned eight studies that all said that he should convert that dump into a lake. When he did so, Somebody else in the Army Corps said, no, that was a wet line. You got to turn it back into a dump. I mean, this is an unbelievable example of the type of bureaucratic insanity that goes on day after day and affects millions of Americans. All right, so I was wrong. (01:56–02:02)
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Asserts that a conflicting directive from the Army Corps required reverting the lake back to a dump.
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