my son-in-law is christopher caldwell is a very fine writer and journalist and great editor. he was kind enough to start off by editing the early chapters, which he felt were much too long because people wanted to get me to washington. they didn't want to hear what i was doing in the early part. and he cut that down, but he could not devote the time beyond that. i think he gave me a pattern of what i should do. i then went through the whole manuscript laboriously and i cut it but it was still much too long. then we hired bill schultz, who was a close personal friend of mine. also he was the washington editor of the reader's digest for many years when evans and novak articles, we were what they call roving editors of the reader's digest. we did four articles a year. he was the principle editor. very fine editor. the original manuscript before the very first cut would have run about 1400 pages in a book, which is ridiculous, of course. it's a very thick book as it is right now, over 600 pages. a lot of people told bill schultz this would be the end of our friendship, but on the