Oral History Interview with Stephen E. Van Nostrand, April 20, 1987 Page: 40
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it must have been three or four months after he died before
I stopped thinking that I heard that "slop, slop, slop"'fh-his
slippers coming to my door.
He was a very special person, and he was most important
to Caltex because he had an even-handed approach to the con-
duct of the business. He helped put together, really, the
operation. As a former Mitsubishi man, he had put together
the partnership with Tidewater Oil (Getty Oil) And Mitsubishi
that was very successful for many years. Then when we came
along, he was instrumental in advising us about the suitability
of Koa and NOC. He had their confidence, and he had our
confidence.
I must say (chuckle) that I think the role of my
predecessors was easier than mine in times of crisis for the
simple reason that if you could send off a cable saying,
"This is what it boils down to, and this is my recommendation,
and Nomura concurs," New York paid attention. You received
the kind of decision and answer that you needed, because he
was so highly thought of by our people.
I would consider that Shun was typical in another
respect in that he was a man of great integrity. He was
un-Japanese in his lack of interest in detail; he was a
broad-brush man, a big picture man. Therefore, contracts
didn't mean too much to him. But the spirit of the contract
is something that Shun and all the rest of the Japanese
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Van Nostrand, Stephen E. Oral History Interview with Stephen E. Van Nostrand, April 20, 1987, book, April 20, 1987; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc306889/m1/42/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.