


Well, I’ll kick off with the first question to get us started and then it will be a free form, free flowing seminar from that point on. We didn’t realize that this was actually taking place in Seattle. May I suggest that if you all want to shed your jackets and ties, I’ve sort of dressed down for today and you’ve all dressed up, so please make yourselves comfortable. Since you will be doing most of the talking, they’ll figure out who you are. Interviewers do not divulge respondents remarks to respondents in other sessions.īefore we begin, it will be helpful to the future transcriber if we each identify ourselves so the transcriber can get a sense of our voices. Accordingly, only the respondent is free to report his remarks to persons not present at the interview.

Before we begin and introduce ourselves, I’d like to read from our policies and procedures page so that you understand the nature of the confidentiality of this particular session: To encourage candor, respondents are assured of the strict confidentiality of their remarks and of their control over access to the record of the proceedings. We’re pleased to be here today for your oral history as part of the Bush Oral History Project.
