Bob Denham

WARREN BUFFETT: Yeah, I’ll lead the applause for them. Where are they? There they are. (Applause). I mentioned this before, but it’s worth mentioning again. Deryck took on the job of being the operating head of Salomon Brothers on what, August 18th, 1991. He didn’t know what — he couldn’t know what he was getting into, exactly. He — two months later or three months later, we’d never had a conversation about compensation. He did not ask me for Berkshire, or my, guarantee for indemnification because he was walking in not knowing legal problems. We didn’t know what we would finally uncover. And he worked incredible hours to keep that place together, which was not easy. Bob Denham, I called — I guess on the 23rd or so, 20th. I called him on a Friday. I got home on a Saturday, the 24th of August. He was living a nice pleasant peaceful life in California. And had a first class law firm, a good group of clients, wife had a good job there.