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basically an operation of men.
SY: Was that under this, under your direction?
CS: No, it really was set up under a gentleman named Bill
[William R. ] Codus, and he and I worked together, but
basically, he reported directly to Mrs. Nixon, because
it was the most expeditious way of handling things. As
I say, when the staff is as small as ours is, you don't
really have the luxury of having your real staff
organization, with everybody reporting to everybody.
Everybody's scrambling [laughter]. . You work together.
You don't end up really working for somebody.
Now, depending on who has an area of expertise, as
far as press was concerned, I made those decisions.
But as far as an advance was concerned, Bill Codus made
those decisions, on the logistics, simply because it
was not humanly possible for one person to sit over
here, during that period, and be on top of everything,
and make everything, make all decisions. Because I had
an operating responsibility to run the press operation.
SY:
Hm hmm.
CS: So I couldn't just sit there and make judgments. I was
out doing things. So, it was a, and in my judgment it
worked very very well. We had a nice team and we all
worked together very well. So, it was a nice, well,
I
don't find campaigns a nice experience, basically
[laughter]. It was a good operating situation, I
think. We had our problems in the beginning,
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