Dorothy Eisenberg - Excerpt 3 Transcript
(Las Vegas, Nevada; August 22, 2001)

JG: Now this is the piece that has been the most - I met Jean when I first came here, met her in archives, getting the archives started. She was able to bring people out consistently. Explain to me that - was it charisma, what was it?

DE: I think we admired her. I think I - (DEisenberg3) I truly cared for Jean, but I don't think she was the warmest person in the world. I think the intellectual ability that she had, I think because she was so well organized, I don't think I ever knew anyone better organized than Jean. It was amazing what she could do. And when it was organized, then you realized it was doable. Some people can't get to that first step, and - and she helped with that first step, to see what you had to do to get it done, and then if you're any good you learn that yourself, so that when you have your own project, you know how to do it. And she backed you up. If - If you would stumble or - or have some problems with things, she was there to back you up, (DEisenberg3) but also taught us, "Do your homework, go out in teams." I still tell this to people when they - they go to - when I work with candidates and they're going to be interviewed by the newspaper or someone, "Go with somebody else." They can back you up. Sometimes they can think of things you can't think of, and they can always - also say, "Well, they didn't say this," or "They did say this," because you need some backup. And all of these little tools are only tools, but they make things so much easier, and - and they translate into running for office or - or running an office and how you do things. Because I think that when she was in the state legislature, she organized herself in the same way, that she did her homework, she knew the bills. She also had lead people up there all the time, helping her, and presenting the arguments on certain bills.