During the turbulent 1960s Lee C. White contributed in quiet ways to addressing and resolving the nations most intractable civil rights problems and played an early role in identifying and promoting environmental protection causes as a Special Counsel to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Laced with anecdotes and humor Government for the People is Lee Whites story of his pursuits in the legislative and executive branches of government and in private legal practice. Inspired by Senator George W. Norris Republican of Nebraska Lee White traversed the political lines of the legislative branch of government working for two of the most highly respected and admired United States Senators John F. Kennedy Democrat of Massachusetts and John Sherman Cooper Republican of Kentucky. He observed up close the workings of the Hoover Commission charged with recommending policies to improve operations of the executive branch of government as a right hand to former Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy. In the executive branch White served first as a lawyer in the legal division of the Tennessee Valley Authority and later as Chairman of the Federal Power Commission. As a lawyer in private practice and a vigorous consumer advocate Lee White led the Energy Policy Task Force of the Consumer Federation of America during the 1970s advocating consumer interests before Congress and public forums. His many varied and challenging postGovernment activities included having a ringside seat in the 1972 presidential election as campaign manager for George McGoverns Vice Presidential running mate R. Sargent Shriver. Based on a career devoted to the public interest aspects of legal and policy issues and writing with as much political objectivity as he can garner Lee White concludes his memoirs by contrasting the presidential administrations in which he served with that of President George W. Bush.