Five chiefs of staff and one ex-governor came together at a Wilmington Rotary club meeting pull the curtain back on the recent governors and themselves during a panel discussion. Mike Castle was the moderator. I’ll let Celia Cohen pick it up there.
…Castle asked for a funny story and got one from (du Pont’s chief of staff ) Swayze about an in-house crisis when the governor’s secretary was getting married.
It seems the secretary wanted to book the bridal suite at the Greenbrier, the historic resort in West Virginia, only to be told it was unavailable. She said something to du Pont, who said something to Swayze, and eventually it led to a conference call involving du Pont and Jay Rockefeller, then the governor of West Virginia, and their chiefs of staff.
With a du Pont and a Rockefeller on the line, the obvious solution was proposed.
“Let’s buy the sucker,” Rockefeller said, and although it did not need to go that far, the Greenbrier was persuaded to come around.
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