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Exit interview with Ronald H. Walker
conducted by Susan Yowell
in Room 348 of the Old Executive Office Building
on December 29, 1972
SY:
from you is a history of how the advance staff was
set up from, right after the election in 68. How you
organized the advance staff.
RW: Well, the first six months of the Nixon administration,
in 1969, the travel arrangement was handled kind of
totally by Dwight Chapin. He was the appointments
secretary, the travel coordinator, the individual that
made the assignments for the various trips the
President made. Then I just happened, by happenstance,
to be one of the advance men that had more or less
survived and done a fairly good job in 1968 during the
campaign. I guess, quickly, to recall what that first
six months was about, would be to look at the
Inauguration itself, which was handled by a number of
advance men, specifically, [J. ] Roy Goodearle, John
Nidecker, Nick CL. Nicholas] Ruwe, myself, and Bill
[William R. ] Codus (who handled the Capitol). These
were names that had been in and about the Nixon
campaign organization for many years. I was
relatively a newcomer, but did come back and help on
the Inauguration. I ended up advancing members of the
First Family, specifically Mrs. Nixon, and then working
with the various [Inaugural] balls that evening.
Shortly after the Inauguration I went back to Texas,
where I was living at that time, temporarily, and was
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