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Quite frankly, this office is small enough that
everyone needs to have some experience in almost every
facet of what goes on here. And that was an attempt to
give all the girls an opportunity to know what was
involved when you're on the road, and what was required
of staff, and how Mrs. Nixon operated, and kind of the
problems that you ran into. And it was very beneficial
for everybody. It trained a lot more women in how to
advance, and it gave everybody that experience of
knowing why we get those strange phone calls after
she's been out someplace, and how some little old lady
wants forty-six pictures and
[laughter],
And
how
to
handle and answer those kinds of requests. And how
valid they really are. So that now we have three or
four girls here who are really quite capable of doing
an advance.
However, on a major trip, Mrs. Nixon does prefer
to have a good, qualified advance man do the trip, and
SO do the girls. And particularly on a foreign trip,
we always have
SY:
Hm hmm.
CS:
someone from [the] State [Department] and someone
from here. Now, during the campaign period, when Mrs.
Nixon and Tricia and Julie were advancing we simply
didn't, were traveling, we simply didn't have the staff
here at all to cope with it, SO a whole little
operation was set up to advance the Family, and it was
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