I hired the best people I could given the restraints that I had, which were salary. But I hired the very best people I could, and I let them do their job. I also kept my board, which we called a commission. I was a good communicator, and by that, I don’t mean my communication, my verbal communication, but I sent them, especially when we all got computers and email, there was never anything that happened in the zoo from politics, from animals to visitors, good or bad, that I didn’t communicate with them. They could never say that they weren’t informed. And that was a lesson learned from John Mehrtens who informed nobody of anything. So I was a good communicator. I didn’t always, in speaking of being a good communicator, I didn’t always let my staff know what I was thinking because I was usually thinking of five or six things at one time, (laughs) and it was hard for me to remember what I thought of 10 o’clock this morning, but now I’m thinking about something else.
