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time, an Honor America Day ceremony. Well, we started
programming. We got Bob Hope, we got
Then, of
course, Honor America Day speaks for itself. We had
the better part of 400,000 people that were here for
that event that night. Those guys did one hell of a
job. I mean, it would never have happened, it would
never have happened if it hadn't been for those advance
men. They set up regional offices. We put up an
office in downtown Washington, we put two or three out
in Maryland, we put some out in Virginia. We had
offices in Philadelphia, we had offices in New York.
We had trains that came from New York, down through
Philadelphia, huge trains full of people. That's where
Peter Brennan, we met Peter Brennan, who's now the
Secretary of Labor.
SY:
Hm hmm.
RW: We met him the first time. He had a whole train of
hardhats and brought them down. We had CH. ] Ross Perot
from Texas that rented two airplanes and flew them in.
It was that kind of, "Give me a job, and by God, I'll
get it done! [pounds table]. There's nothing I can't
do!" If the guy had that kind of attitude, and had a
little more going for him, we'd won. Yes?
[Recorder turned off]
[Recording resumed]
RW: Well, anyway, Honor America Day was a real plus. It
not only took what I'd been building for a year, or
30
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