Reagan's record on conservation

THE LEGEND of Ronald Reagan improves daily.

His actual record, however, remains the same, and needs repeating.

In an otherwise thoughtful op-ed (``Triumph of the authoritarians," July 14), John W. Dean writes, ``Ronald Reagan believed in `conserving' this planet, not relaxing environmental laws to make life easier for big business."

Ronald Reagan, the man who ostentatiously removed Jimmy Carter's solar panels from the White House and appointed James Watt as secretary of the interior, always put the interests of big business before those of the environment and was utterly uninterested in conserving this planet .

ANTHONY DANGERFIELD
Medford