I can’t remember all these details. But this guy started writing messages to people in and mustering support and letters, went out to everybody that had taken Rudy Rubin’s Wildlife Management Training course, and people that had taken the zoo biology training course. And pretty soon the Smithsonian was swamped with letters of protest, and they were sending copies to the congressman. And so pressure was brought to bear on small, and I was being called by various friends who worked in the federal government, who I knew, who were involved with endangered species conservation and whatnot, US Fish and Wildlife Service, national Museum scientists and everything. And all the curators in the institution kind of joined us in the aggregate and became a very forceful pushback on the movement. And I was getting calls from the Washington Post every day at the end of the day, they’d call me up and would talk for an hour, and they were quoting me and they would quote, quote small, and then they would quote me, and I’m not sure I sounded as good as they made me sound, but he sounded pretty damn good when it came out in the paper the next morning. And then I get calls in the morning and people would call up, say, damn, that was great, what you said, you know, that sort of thing. And the Board of Regents decided to snuff it out.
