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Miller: 



Baum: 



Miller: 



and I shot publicly all over the world in the last 

 eight years. 



Then this year you were on the committee for the 

 Martinez-Benicia Bridge celebration. 

 I was the coordinator of the two counties, I was the 

 secretary, and I was designated by the chairman, who 

 was busy on his election last year, to manage the 

 whole thing. Yes, I was the top man in the whole 

 show. We raised some $14,000 and we spent it fru- 

 gally and we had money left over, and we're still 

 distributing the surpluses, which is another very 

 unusual thing. I wanted very much to handle that 

 thing because I wanted to wind up my career with it; 

 I had handled so many similar ones down in Richmond, 

 I had been part of the San Francisco Bay Bridge cel- 

 ebration, and a part of the Golden Gate Exposition 

 and had been chairman down there, chairman for Rich- 

 mond at the Crockett Bridge, and I've had many ex- 

 periences over the years running parades and have 

 been leader of parades all over the world, so this 

 was a final fling that I had in mind, and we came 



