Mr. Jenner. Did that conservative organization, or your purpose in going to Dallas, as well, have any business context in addition to politics?
Mr. Weissman. I would say 50 percent of the purpose was business and the other 50 percent politics. We figured that only rich men can indulge full time in politics, so first we had to make some money before we could devote ourselves to the political end completely.
Mr. Jenner. In short compass; would you tell the Commission your background up to the time that you entered military service, and give us the date of the entry of military service?
Mr. Weissman. Do you mean as far as my schooling and where I lived before then? Before I went into the service?
Mr. Jenner. Let's take it from high school.
Mr. Weissman. I graduated from Edison Technical High School in Mount Vernon in June of 1956, went to work for the Nuclear Development Corp. as an experimental machinist in July of that year and left them in August of 1957. I then went on the road with my brother, Joe, and his wife, working as demonstrators or pitchmen, you might say, in department stores, selling some patent medicines and the like. Did this for about—oh, that was from the 18th of November 1957 up until about April or May of 1958.
Mr. Jenner. Your brother Joe is a little bit older than you?
Mr. Weissman. He is 20 months older, yes.
Mr. Jenner. And his given name is Joe, and not Joseph?
Mr. Weissman. Joseph. Then—let's see—I went to work for the American Schools of Music, which my brother founded in Jersey.