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 and hopefully his full support. While Busbee is in the posture of looking to you for advice and help. I would not pass up the opportunity to extract from him some sort of pledge of cooperation or support.

As it looks now, David will run third or fourth in the race. Having run two consecutive statewide races and lost, he will be through in Georgia politics and this time I suspect even he will realize it. If David loses, he will be a very bitter man. And although he has disappointed me repeatedly since his last defeat and taken some very cheap shots at you, he is still the man who helped you get elected Governor and you are still the man who entrusted him with the most important appointment any Governor has to bestow. I would hope that we could draw on those old ties and that old friendship to win him back over to our cause. He could be difficult to deal with, but otter a while possibly the chance to be involved in your plans will have some appeal to him.

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