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A powerbroker in the American West , he eagerly pursued large water Public Works projects such as Glen Canyon Dam and the resulting creation of Lake Powell . He was critically portrayed in Marc Reisner 's voluminous opus, '' Cadillac Desert '', as a hard-nosed, take-no-prisoners apparatchik in service of power for power's sake. Dominy has said of the controversy surrounding his tenure in office: "I have no apologies. I was a crusader for the development of water. I was the Messiah. I was the evangelist who went out and argued persuasively for the harness of water for the benefit of people." Reisner, and other anti-dam environmentalists, contend that many Western dams were primarily Pork , unsustainable without huge governmental subsidy, and that they contributed to the environmental degradation of the West. Dominy believes that the water should be used in service of the people—that the measure of a river's health and utility is how many people can easily use it. TRIVIA Early in the Nixon Administration , Dominy was fired by James Watt , who would later become controversial as Secretary Of The Interior in the Reagan Administration . Dominy was replaced by Ellis L. Armstrong . REFERENCES
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