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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 29

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