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and stuff. The President wants that Honor America Day
to be the biggest happening on a Fourth of July ever in
Washington, D.C. Let's let them have it. 11 Well, it
was just like a gift from heaven. I took all thirty of
those guys, and they ranged from all the way up into
upper state New York, down into Virginia. We had some
in from Chicago and that area, but most of them were in
the east coast, the Washington area. I thought I
should go after my first element of men, [they] should
be in the government and up and down this coast here,
where I can get to them quickly, as opposed to going
out into the midwest and to the southwest and to the
far west. So that's what I had. I turned those guys
loose. Crowd raising, handbills, leaflets, telephone,
boiler room operations, and they just set up mini
presidential advances. But they couldn't use the name
of the President.
So, it not only gave them the opportunity to go
out and try their wares or what I tried to teach them
[pounds table], but they had to be innovative, they had
to be imaginative, and they had to have a lot of guts
to go about that job [pounds table]. It's great to go
out there and say, "The President of the United States
and Mrs. Nixon will be arriving at Tupelo, Mississippi
airport at four o'clock next week. That's clout!
I
mean, that's the President of the United States! We
didn't have anything going except, at that point in
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