T. Boone Pickens Wildcats on Wall Street

Planning Review interviewed T. Boone Pickens in Westchester shortly before he spoke at Business Week's “Conference on the Future” in April. Mr. Pickens is a charming propagandist, a great talker generous with his time, and an entrepreneur clearly excited about catching a ride on the flood tide of opportunity. The misadventures of the oil business and the malapropisms of its cast of characters provide him with a generous supply of raw material for his saga of the populist gamesman, armed with the best strategy, pitted against the entrenched and self‐righteous establishment. He obviously loves the contest.