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built steel plants, they populated Chicago and they started
the great slaughter houses of the world. These were the
guys that really became powerful, became rich, and many of
them benevolent. Many of them fine men, but they did require
when they got in the office a zero sum game. There's only
room for so many meatpackers in this United States and
I'm going to expand and I'm going to be one of them and there's
no room for softness. Some lose and some win. There are
many of those around now and, again, they are the people
that get a lot of things done. Some of my best friends are
jungle fighters.

He had talked to a lot of people who had all this data
on record about the guy we're coming to, the "gamesman".
But before the gamesman, the dominant figure in America
that started about the time the big compaines got so complex
that they became what we call bureaucracies, was the "company
man". The man in the gray flannel suit, the organization
man, remember him? He was riding high in the '20's and '30's
and then became a man of sort of ridiculule after World War II.
When I start naming names now I'll have to give you some of
the names he mentions because it stands to reason it will
offend somebody. He said Eisenhower was a typical organization
man. This isn't a derogatory term either. They are people
that control big groups of people with suaveness, persuasion,
and fairness. If the jungle fighter is a zero sum man, then
these people, by and large, try real hard. They do everything

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