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numbered somewhere in the vicinity of around a hundred
and twenty-five.
SY: Hm hmm. Do you see the office
RW:
Yes.
SY:
decreasing greatly in size and
a
?
RW:
Yes. You can go back through all the reports and
everything that I wrote gearing up to 1972, the plan
for the advance office for 1972. I knew we were going
to need a lot. We ended up getting a lot, and it
worked. Just little things which I'm sure you would
understand, but many people wouldn't, a xerox. Try and
do forty schedules, fifteen or twenty page schedules, I
mean, from the standpoint of when they eat lunch to
when they can go to bed, damn near. We finally got the
xerox up here, and that kind of stuff. Well, that
stuff will remain, but now it's not necessary, because
he's a President again. He's not a lame duck
President, but he will never run for office again. So,
the tenure of this office is going to have to be
retained. The magnitude of what it's going to
encompass now will be just as important as it was for
when he went to the CHarry S Truman] funeral, day
before yesterday. There's already a backbone and a
great foundation established here.
Bill Henkel, who I've named as my successor, was
one of the senior advance men. The reason I named
Bill, because he was the youngest of the group, but
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