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Q:

That's pretty unprecedented, right? To go --

Stanton:

Absolutely.

Q:

I mean, has it been done since? I mean, I'm sure you've never had access again.

Stanton:

Wait until you hear the story. Eager beaver that I was because I didn't -- I think -- I know I'd been to Washington as a child. But I hadn't been to Washington since I was in college, I don't believe. Certainly I hadn't been there after I got out of college, because I couldn't afford it. My wife had never been to Washington, so I told her: By God, the company is sending me to Washington to look at these data. Let's drive down and the money we save on train fare, we can use for gas, and you can go off -- So we cranked up-

Q:

This is all on an expense account of --

Stanton:

CBS.

Q:

CBS under a hundred dollar allocation.

Stanton:

No, that hundred dollars --

Q:

It was expanded.





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