former cfo of microsoft and general motors and the former worldwide chairman of deloiotte like jim quigley and chris liddell. doug wooden, steve preston, tevi and drew maloney, brian hook. i also want to mention with special appreciation clark campbell and daniel cruz. not just for their work in putting this report together, which i think you'll agree is exceptional, but also the key role they played in the one-page management process. and daniel and many others who he symbolizes. daniel would be my nominee for the unknown soldier award. [laughter] he and many of his colleagues were there day and night through thick and thin, in good weather and bad. so there was some bad weather, by the way. and i, so i think that's important. and finally, i think important to acknowledge mitt romney who deployed all of us in the nation's service. and i've come to appreciate the fact as a person who's done public service myself and run for office a few times myself. i've come to appreciate the fact that those who run for office and those who work with them when they don't win, they have done some of the h

again, work to our general instructions, jim quigley did a great job with that. we began to develop names. we developed what i'm sure will be referred to later as the betting bunker. it was a highly confidential place. no information left that room. you had to be cleared into it. we were obviously wanting to protect the privacy of those being considered. we were not able to vet by making contact and having interviews but we did as much as we could to be prepared. i'll mention in just a moment the level of our preparation. we began to develop white house various organization organizational structures. we talked about organized landing teams. we began to create presidential readiness for the office of the president little bit. -- elect. i'll just pause there. i think we underestimated the ize of that job. i want to just mention, steve prescott. steve and i were friends in the bush-led cabinet. it was a great stroke of luck that he had a business sale and had some time. he did a great job to do hat. we began to develop a presidential schedule. we had 10 days framed

very beginning, a couple of people who were there at the foundation of this work, chris iddell, jim quigley, and others. the first thing you want to do is find a person and has a better rolodex in washington than anyone else, and i am convinced that that is jamie. we had worked together at hhs and she had been in a number of different roles, and most of the team you can see in this book reflects in some way directly or indirectly people's willingness to respond to her. i have acknowledged that on many occasions how many times you have a chance to surround yourself with people like the former cfo of microsoft and general motors and the former chairman of the lord, like jim , andrews, doug, steve maloney. brian hook. i also want to mention with special appreciation clark , notell and daniel cruz just for their work in putting this report together, which you but the is exceptional, key role they played in the management process, and daniel and many others -- daniel would be my nominee for the unknown soldier award. he and many of his colleagues were there day and night through thick and thin a