The U.S. Department of the Interior oversees public lands, national parks and wildlife refuges, and has a major impact on the nation's environmental direction. Columbus Delano Columbus Delano was the poster child for American genocide as President Ulysses S. Grant’s Interior Secretary from 1871 to 1875. At the Interior, he helped pioneer what later became the National Park System by setting aside Yellowstone. President Harding transferred Naval Petroleum Reserve sites in California and Wyoming from the Navy to Fall’s Interior Department. So let’s put the best face on this: We haven’t had a genocidal murderer running the Interior Department for 150 years.

Source: New York Times December 03, 2022 12:15 UTC