So finally I called him in one Saturday in June of 1976, thirty months after I had given up the chairman’s job, and just said simply, “Well, Ron, I thought I was ready to step out, but I see that really I wasn’t. I’ve been so involved that in a way it has put you under a real handicap.” I told him I wanted to come back in as chairman and CEO, and have him assume another job—vice chairman and chief financial officer, I believe.
