they ask him all kinds of questions so it's pretty obvious that jim hudson was a real pro-and he knew what he was doing. some guy in the back of the room holds his hand up and says mr. hudson are you a democrat or a republican? in my innocence i never even asked him. he said i am a democrat. next i remember arnie weber who was dazzling and he was just the same guy holds his hand up and says are you a democrat? the last guy was our nominee to be head of the bureau of labor statistics and he was a statistician statistician. arthur byrnes who was very close to president nixon was, someone that he wanted and i wanted so fisa finally we got a republican. the same guy as the question and he stands there like a cow chewing its cud and then he finally says well i guess you would have to say i am a -- [inaudible] anyway i get back to my hotel room and the phone is ringing off the hook and the republicans on the labor committee are saying didn't you know there was an election? so i said look i cleared these names with the white house and cleared them with the ranking republican. jobless was the

this industrial labour relations field that there is and everybody told me it was this guy named jim hudson at lockheed. i talked to him and they said we have to have a real labor guy that advises you, somebody that negotiates and contract and stands for the election. as we found a guy named bill to do that. have to get somebody that really knows manpower training. so, we got that. got to get somebody that has worked in the area of how to deal with discrimination in the workplace, a lawyer that knows the labour market. anyway, i get a lot of these people lined up and the president-elect nixon thought they would show progress in his administration. why don't you bring them to the hotel and we will have a little meeting and you can introduce them to the press. so we have a meeting and go down to the press and i introduce them then he asked all kind of questions and was pretty obvious he was a pro and he knew what he was doing. someone in the back of the room holds his hand up and says are you a democrat or republican? and in my innocence i never even asked him. he said i'm a democrat. so i re

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