[Wonder Warthog]

"I wish I could remember who wrote it, and the name of it, but I thought it was an excellent story."

I believe it was either written or anthologized by Spider Robinson. The "operative" was none other than William Proxmire (he of "Golden Fleece Award" infamy). Proxmire hated the space program--it took bucks away from his beloved social(ist) programs.

[Britton J Wingfield]

See the above post :)

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"I wish I could remember who wrote it, and the name of it, but I thought it was an excellent story"

I believe it was either written or anthologized by Spider Robinson.

Close. It was entitled The Return of William Proxmire and was by Larry Niven...likely the reason TB recalled it as an excellent yarn. It appeared in Requiem I believe, [Tor; 0-312-85168-5] and originally ran in What Might Have Been? Volume I: Alternate Empires edited by Greg Benford and Martin Greenberg for Bantam [Spectra] from 1989.

I wonder what H. Beam Piper thought of R.A.H's writing....

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