I recently finished reading the Dan Abram’s book, “Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy,” about Theodore Roosevelt’s trial where he was accused of defamation and libel. The trial was based on an article Teddy Roosevelt wrote about the corruption of the party boss in the state of New York. Roosevelt’s article picked on the main power broker who ran the Republican party but was never elected to any office. The party boss sued Roosevelt.
The book came to mind as I sat through the IAPMO annual conference code hearing in Reno, Nevada. The IAPMO process at the annual conference is rather unique. You never know what code change will be discussed. The chairman of the Standards Council starts with the Plumbing Code and calls for discussion on any code change in Chapter 1. The chair systematically calls one chapter after another.