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appearance, whether it was their attitude, or whether
it was what they were hopeful of getting out of it, on
their own behalf, as opposed to putting into it on
behalf of the President of the United States. One of
the strongest feelings that I had was that they had to
have an instilled passion for anonymity. Because, only
in doing what we have done over the last three and a
half years (and done it most effectively) has it been
accomplished by virtue of that obscurity, and working
behind the scenes, and letting the people that we
organize to be front runners get the credit.
My general philosopy was that it would be very
simple for a Ron Walker, or a Mike Duval [Michael
Raoul-Duval], or a [W.] Dewey Clower, or a Jon Foust,
or a Bill [William] Henkel to go into Chicago, call on
Colonel Riley [sp?], which was protocol, who was the
chief of staff for Mayor [Richard J.J Daley. Make that
courtesy call, and then turn to the Republican
organization, say, "O.K., this is what we're going to
do. 11 Turn to Governor [Richard B. ] Ogilvie's office
and say, "O.K., this is what we're going to do. I'm
going to have a press conference at four o'clock this
afternoon, lay out the schedule and do everything, you
know, and I'11 be on television tonight and I'11 be
King Kong. Now this is the way that most of [John F. ]
Kennedy's advance men and Johnson's advance men worked.
They went in with big "hoolihaw" [phonetic] and, you
10
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