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be done. I don't know much about political contacts. That I shall have to learn. Somebody will have to show me the way. I gather you've got good political standing and contacts and I suppose that with what you know about it we needn't make any very serious mistakes. You don't realize, perhaps, that in running a railroad you have to do the same thing. It's a different set of politicians. It isn't the government, but it's the politicians who are politic in that they're customers, the big shippers, the directors, the owners, the population that uses the railroad. You can't announce something new that the railroad's going to do without being sure that all the elements of the population that are affected by it will stand for it and that it's going to work all right. So I've done some of that. I've gone around and met the people in the village, telling them what's in view and what we think. I always told them it wasn't settled and asked what they thought. I let them ask questions and never had any trouble answering the questions.”

Anyhow, I liked his approach to it. So he was appointed. He was a very good deputy, an excellent deputy really. I realize now, as I look back on it, that he always had that same quiet way. I would ask him to come in and would say, “Now, I think we should do ‘this, this,