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"blockbuster". We took every conceivable state, every
conceivable thing that a President could do that was
presidential [pounding], that was not political
[pounding]: a park, a prison, anything like that.
Believe it or not, by the time 1971 was over, we'd done
the better part of ninety-five percent of them
[pounding]. The blockbuster is in the file here. But
it was to try and hit fifty states, and do it in
1971,
SY:
Hm hmm.
RW:
R
.
counting on the first two years of the
administration
SY:
Hm hmm. CUnintelligiblel.
RW:
and we did it. If you'll recall, the latter part of
1971 we hit all fifty states.
But then we started working on China. I' 11 never
/
forget it, when I was in San Clemente, at the end of
the summer of 1971. We'd ended up doing a series of
stops on the way out. We were out there for the
summer. All of a sudden, it was a Friday afternoon, I
got a call from Dwight. I was laying next to the pool
at the San Clemente Irn. He said, "Get dressed and get
over here. 11 I went over, and all of a sudden I walked
into the conference room, and there was the advance
team. Which by this time had become happenstance. It
was a great love for us. We were doing our jobs and
they were doing theirs, 'cause we had problems,
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