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 have been an also-ran, anyway.

B: At that time, was Pinellas County becoming more Republican, or still Democrat?

C: At that time, there had been a couple of legislators elected from Pinellas County,
 Bill Cramer, [U.S. Congressman William Cramer] probably, and Goldner [St.
 Petersburg Mayor Herman Goldner] were the first two, and it became, and I
 guess it still is, basically Republican.

B: It is indeed. I did not know if it had gone that way then but even the Democrats
 were conservative then.

C: I am not sure how we ended up in that race. It would have been a very close
 race, probably. We probably won it. But that would have not been the deciding
 factor. It would have been the general election. I do not know whether the
 Republicans really voted Republican very much because they [were] usually
 also-rans that were running. Anyway, after the election, I got a call. Farris had
 announced his chief administrative aide was going to be Jimmy Kynes, a great
 All-American football player at Florida and practicing law in Ocala, from
 Marianna. He was very active in Farris' campaign, and Farris named him his
 chief administrative aide. Jimmy was there the whole time, the whole four years
 with the exception of the last few months when Farris had appointed him
 attorney general when somebody left the attorney general's office, I believe.
 Jimmy lost that race by 300 votes. That had been the 1964 election, and that
 was the best thing that ever happened to him, to lose it, because he went to work
 for Jim Walter [James Walter, Tampa-based manufactured-home builder and
 entrepreneur] and did very well. He was going to practice law with me. He came
 down, we were at a conference, and he said, well, Warren, I obligated myself to
 go see Jim Walter; he asked me, before I made a decision, to come by and say
 hello to him, and I am going to go out and pay him my respects, but I will be right
 back. But he never came back, which was fine because Jimmy was a good
 friend. He died of cancer, and one of his sons died of the same cancer. Jimmy
 called and asked me if I would entertain the appointment as the State Beverage
 Commissioner. This was during the period of time from the election to the
 inauguration, when you are putting together your team. And I said, no, Jimmy, I
 would not be interested in that job. That is a cesspool. I mean, there is so much
 going on in that department, I just do not want to have anything to do with it. So,
 Farris called me and said, Warren, I would like for you to be on my Road Board,
 which surprised me because my wife is first cousin to the Cones, who were the
 biggest road contractors in the state at the time, the Cone Brothers, [and] were
 off the bid-list for bribing inspectors for the road department along with about five
 or six others of the big contractors. So I was surprised. He said, I would like for
 you to be in my office in Ocala on a certain time on a certain day, and I said I will
 be there. That was his headquarters. Farris was practicing law in Ocala when he
 ran. He was born and raised there, and was practicing law there. We had a