Gale McGee

Gale McGee (1915-1992) was a Wyoming U.S. senator and Democrat who served from 1959 to 1977. He joined the Wagon Wheel Information Committee and other Wyoming residents in opposing Project Wagon Wheel. 

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"Statement of Opposition to Project Wagon Wheel: An Experimental Nuclear Stimulation of Natural Gas in Sublette County, Wyoming. Respectfully Submitted by the Wagon Wheel Information Committee and Other Residents of Sublette County,"January 1973

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ah09800_000022-90
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Gale McGee papers, Collection No. 9800, Box 316, Folder 6, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
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Letter to WWIC member Sally Mackey from U.S. Senator Gale McGee, January 10, 1973

McGee informs Mackey that a meeting has been set for February 7, 1973, between WWIC represenatives, the Wyoming delegation, and AEC staff.

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ah09800_000099
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Gale McGee papers, Collection No. 9800, Box 316, Folder 6, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
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List of members of the WWIC delegation coming to Washington, D.C. for the February 7, 1973 meeting regarding Project Wagon Wheel

Handwritten notations are included on the document.

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ah09800_000010
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Gale McGee papers, Collection No. 9800, Box 346, Folder 10, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
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Letter to U.S. Senator Gale McGee to WWIC General Chairman Floyd Bousman from, January 13, 1973

Bousman informs McGee of the community's straw vote on Wagon Wheel and asks McGee if he could arrange a meeting with Dept. of Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz during the WWIC visit to Washington, D.C. in February.

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ah09800_000152
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Gale McGee papers, Collection No. 9800, Box 316, Folder 6, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
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Letter to WWIC General Chairman Floyd Bousman from U.S. Senator Gale McGee, January 23, 1973

McGee writes to Bousman that he has written to Dept. of Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz requesting that Butz meet with the WWIC delegation.

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ah09800_000150-151
Citation
Gale McGee papers, Collection No. 9800, Box 316, Folder 6, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
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Letter to U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Dr. Dixy Lee Ray from U.S. Senator Gale McGee, February 20, 1973

McGee congratulates Ray on her appointment as AEC Chairman, notes the shortcomings of her predecessor James Schlesinger, and asks what role local opposition plays in ending Project Wagon Wheel. McGee distributed this letter widely to constituents and others.

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ah09800_000092-94
Citation
Gale McGee papers, Collection No. 9800, Box 316, Folder 6, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
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Letter to WWIC member Mrs. Vincent Birr (Phyllis) from U.S. Senator Gale McGee, February 22, 1973

McGee relates that he has written to new AEC Chairman Dr. Dixy Lee Ray and that he believes her academic background and environmental sensitivty may bring more responsive by the AEC on environmental issues.

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ah09800_000110
Citation
Gale McGee papers, Collection No. 9800, Box 316, Folder 6, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
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Letter to U.S. Senator Gale McGee from WWIC General Chairman Floyd Bousman, February 22, 1973

Bousman notes WWIC disappointment in not being able to meet with AEC Chairman Schesinger during their visit to Washington, D.C., that the visit did nothing to improve the credibility of El Paso Gas or the AEC, and that their visit indicated the amount of public opposition to Project Wagon Wheel.

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ah09800_000154
Citation
Gale McGee papers, Collection No. 9800, Box 316, Folder 6, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
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Cover letter from U.S. Senator Gale McGee to constituents enclosing his letter to AEC Chairman Dr. Dixy Lee Ray from February 20, 1973

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ah09800_000020
Citation
Gale McGee papers, Collection No. 9800, Box 346, Folder 10, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
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Letter to U.S. Senator Gale McGee from WWIC member Daphne Platts, March 2, 1973

Platts writes of her pleasure at McGee sending his Feb. 20, 1973, letter to AEC Chairman Dixy Lee Ray to 300 constituents and compliments him on the text of the letter. She also thanks him for his comments during the WWIC meeting in Washington D.C. in February and the courtesies his office staff showed WWIC during their visit. 

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ah09800_000134-135
Citation
Gale McGee papers, Collection No. 9800, Box 316, Folder 6, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
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Letter to U.S. Senator Gale McGee from WWIC member Jean Gose, March 30, 1973

Gose encloses a copy of a Denver Post article regarding Project Rio Blanco near Rifle, Colorado, and an admission by an AEC press relations officer that water in the detonation area will become contaminated over time.

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ah09800_000142-143
Citation
Gale McGee papers, Collection No. 9800, Box 316, Folder 6, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
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Letter to U.S. Senator Gale McGee from Stephen E. Johnson, April 10, 1973

A Laramie, Wyoming, resident asks McGee if he feels that Project Wagon Wheel is dead due to criticism surrounding Project Rio Blanco in Colorado. 

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ah09800_000145
Citation
Gale McGee papers, Collection No. 9800, Box 316, Folder 6, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
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Letter to Stephen E. Johnson from U.S. Senator Gale McGee, April 27, 1973

McGee responds to a Laramie, Wyoming, resident that he does not believe Project Wagon Wheel is dead due to technology questions still to be answered.

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ah09800_000144
Citation
Gale McGee papers, Collection No. 9800, Box 316, Folder 6, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
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Letter to Montana Governor Thomas Judge from WWIC member Mary Ann Steele, February 20, 1974

The WWIC wrote to governors and senators of Rocky Mountain states to enlist their help in opposing the Plowshare program and informed Senator McGee that they were doing so.

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ah09800_000015-17
Citation
Gale McGee papers, Collection No. 9800, Box 346, Folder 10, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
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Letter to U.S. Senator Gale McGee from WWIC General Chairman Floyd Bousman, April 25, 1974

Bousman refers to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study and a Western Interstate Nuclear Board study on Project Wagon Wheel.

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ah09800_000002-4
Citation
Gale McGee papers, Collection No. 9800, Box 346, Folder 10, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
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Letter to WWIC General Chairman Floyd Bousman from U.S. Senator Gale McGee, May 15, 1974

Letter to WWIC General Chairman Floyd Bousman from U.S. Senator Gale McGee, May 15, 1974

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ah09800_000013
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McGee responds to WWIC General Chairman Floyd Bousman's letter of April 25, 1974 and discusses delicate negotiations involved in stopping Plowshare appropriations for fiscal year 1975.
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Letter to Jim Olson from U.S. Senator Gale McGee, February 6, 1976

McGee replies to a Big Piney, Wyoming, resident's letter reflecting on why he (McGee) opposed Wagon Wheel and that the project has all but been abandoned.

Resource Identifier
ah09800_002477
Citation
Gale McGee papers, Collection No. 9800, Box 551, Folder 15, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
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