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John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library. Records
of the National Library of Australia. Interview of Tom Fitzgerald, 01/02/1998
- 3/09/1998. JCPML00658/1. Original held by National Library of Australia
TRC 2247
And at the embarkation depot here at Bradfield Park while we waited I
was introduced by an old friend of mine, Ted O’Halloran, a very
tall young man, to an equally tall young man called Gough Whitlam. Thereby
establishing a marvellously one-up relationship against Gough Whitlam
because I’m able to remember our first meeting when he had under
his arm and was insisting on quoting from The Faber Book of Comic
Verse. Whereas he can’t remember it. And if there’s anyone
who hates to be outdone in memory it’s Gough Whitlam. Our relations
have never been easy.