Indiana Dunes A Signature of Time and Eternity: The Administrative History of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, Indiana

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I went to see Nixon in the spring of '71. I asked him, "What is the future of [the] Land and Water Conservation Fund?" And he said, "You're going to be the Assistant Secretary that's going to have the greatest amount of money in the nation's history to spend on the expansion of the parks and the refuges." And I said, "I'll take the job!"

Nathaniel P. ("Nat") Reed, former Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, interview, March 9, 1987.

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Note: Since 1970, there have been numerous reorganizations—substantial as well as minor—of the national lakeshore's administrative staff. The following is a representative sampling of administrative positions charts from the years 1971, 1974, 1977, and 1986. These charts and others may be found in the lakeshore's files in A6427 Organization Charts/Role and Function Statements.

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