The President's New Staff Secretary, Tony Dol, Was New in the Job

The speech writers pulled a fast one to get the draft to ronald regan before it went out to staffing. For all three weeks, the national security council and the state department fought the speech on a number of grounds. I write a bad draft in the first week and rewrite it in the second week. All tony dol and i later realized, was giving me cover, cover for all this, and preventing me from reading the state department's drafts. This is why it was important that i younow. And so this goes back and forth and back and forth. What tommy griscom keeps getting my notes that the state an thennesse submitted seven alternative drafts.