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there any reason, with the possible exception of time pressures why he can't continue to be somehow involved with your operation here?

If we continue our operation, in light of the--there's no reason why not. I mean, except as you say, time, and he'll be realistic about that. I certainly would want to be realistic about it.

Now, what I was going to ask you about further on small business was that, am I recalling correctly that, quite recently in fact, Richard Nixon appeared here? I believe it was in New York City at a dinner or something, and he was the speaker to a fairly large group of small businessman, perhaps two or three hundred, and they were minority businessmen.

He was very supportive of minority small business.

In the t.v. clip that I saw of him he made a statement to the effect that, I suppose he was talking about early in his administration or some years back--anyway, that such a large assembly of minority businessmen, especially black businessmen, small businessmen would not have been possible.

Before his administration?

Probably, he was talking about before or maybe early in his administration, as I recall. He was really attributing this