I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.
I know the district. I know a lot of people in the district. I know how to get where I'm going.
Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.