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Mather, who had been appointed the first director of the National Park Service, began to display apparent mental illness in 1917.
His assistant, Horace Albright, reported this condition to Lane.
The Secretary chose to keep Mather in his position, while allowing Albright to perform the functions of Mather's job until Mather recovered, keeping all of this secret.
According to Albright, Lane was not a conservationist, but did not care to interfere in the decisions of his officials, and so let Mather and Albright have free rein.
Lane wrote in 1917:
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