[reformedliberal]

If he had it typed by a secretary, their initials would be on the page. IIRC it is ss/EE (secretary's initials, lower case/executive's intials upper case) and is added to the lower left-hand corner below the signature block.

However, this raises another question: why would anyone have personal memos, written to cover themselves, typed by someone else?

Killian's widow states that her husband jotted notes on any piece of paper handy and stashed them in his wallet. I know professionals today who have access to word processors and secretaries who do the exact same thing. One is an MD friend and we laugh about his *back pocket file cabinet* all the time.Many people keep a journal in a notebook and use that for personal jottings and to record events. Often this is a small notebook that fits in a shirt pocket.

Only someone under 40 or so would not recall that once-upon-a-time most men did not type. Even if a man did, say a military clerk, once that man reached a certain rank, he probably did not. Executives had too many other duties to spend time typing, especially routine papers. If a military clerk had somehow typed up personal notes for a superior, that clerk would have surely added his initials to the paper in question. It gets to be second nature.

[bert]

...However, this raises another question: why would anyone have personal memos, written to cover themselves, typed by someone else?....

In my experience it was routine to have the typist type up a memo to file.