Thank you for sharing your actual experience. That means more to me than everything else that you have written. And I thank you for your work on the Nixon campaigns. I apologize for my obnoxiousness. I salute you sir.
I also worked on both of Reagan's winning presidential campaigns.
I've worked on other campaigns too; some were won, some weren't,and there were times, after the election, when whom I had worked to get elected, let me down badly. But there was NO WAY that I could have known that the latter would happen, until it did.