i've been grateful for a long time to ces and the cooler heads coalition and myron and to fred smith, who isn't here, for the integrity and the tenacity that he and they have shown during this entire global warming debate. fred isn't here so i can tell some tales out of school. i first met fred 25 years ago, not far from here, at a conference sponsored by the american rivers association. we, the conference participants were meeting to save the world river valleys from development sponsored by the international development agencies such as the world bank and the multilateral development banks. the conference had the usual suspects. you know, the sierra club and rdc, friends of the earth, cultural survival, survival international among others including my organization, energy probe or the probe international from toronto and the conference also had one very unusual suspect, and that would be fred smith. who shared with us all about a concern about the harm that the world bank was causing around the world. fred was a force at that conference and very much in tune with us, although i don'

and actually this involves some deals you know, william fred smith. william was on lookout list for solicitor general. that is, as you know because you also held that job, is a very important job, it's the government's top lawyer for the supreme court, the office that is viewed with plastic and become all the men who've held that and have the first woman doing it all the men have warned the morning suit with tales -- it is quite a prestigious job, and also get another intellectual kind of brainy job before the court. and then professor scully at the university of chicago really wanted that job, and he thought he was going to get it. he had what he thought was a pretty good interview with william french smith, an attorney general but rex lee was also up for the job, and bill smith writes in his memoir that i know you are familiar with some of the late bill smith, he says there was a really close call but he went with wrecks week, and that was a very big disappointment. in fact justice scalia used the word bitter when he talked to me about it. i think i