My job, at the outset, was to write the speeches of Chairman Peter Rodino. He was not to know who was writing them. Nor was anyone else. Mr. Doar did not believe that speechwriters, like Theodore Sorenson, Emmett Hughes, or Richard Goodwin, served anyone's interests by going public. The chairman, however, must have the Quotation of the Day in the Times every time he spoke. This was no small thing. It would be hard to produce words worth quoting, over a period of some months, when the rule for the substance was that it could not tilt.
