Alan Sepinwall points out that one of the people who called Don was Emerson Foote:

Meanwhile, one of Don's other phone messages was from Emerson Foote, an advertising giant who in 1965 quit his job as chairman of McCann-Erickson because he didn't want to represent tobacco anymore.

it's an incredibly risky move to throw that much money down the drain.

I think Don figured they weren't getting that money anyway so why not take a chance.

one of the people who called Don was Emerson Foote

Thanks, Theo. I meant to check up on who Foote was but forgot.

Some googling of Foote reveals two interesting tidbits: He had the Lucky Strikes account in the '40s when he dropped all tobacco advertising. And he was the president of the American Cancer Society in 1965. Was it the ACS that wants SCDP to produce anti-smoking ads?

Oh, that's cool.

Hat-trick!

Just reread Sepinwall's quote above. According to the NY Times obit Foote resigned from the American Tobacco account in 1948, so he'd been an anti-tobacco advocate well before 1965.

We don't really see Peggy reach out the way she's done and Faye kind of shot her down. Why do you think that was?

Also, office gossip says that Peggy slept with Don to get where she is.

Also, office gossip says that Peggy slept with Don to get where she is.

Ahhh, I'd forgotten about that.

Good point, Hayden!

Yeah, Faye knows exactly who Don is and what she`s getting, and her job is to be tuned in to what people are saying, so she`d definitely have heard that about Peggy. And of course Peggy does respect Faye in the way she said, but Faye has no reason to reciprocate.
 
I definitely identify with Peggy`s search here. I worked in a lot of fields that are still heavily male dominated. And I expected to have some sisterly solidarity with the few other women there, but that didn`t always happen.

I love when a show finds the answer just in the nick of time...except it doesn't. And bad things ensue. It's so much more believable.

Totally. I'm so worried about the "the govt had all this info in advance and didn't do a thing to stop it" backlash that may hit our peeps.

Is it wrong that I am more worried about Kale than the nation's oil supply on Rubicon?

Hope not, 'cause me too.

Ooh, do you think the evil band of behind the scenes profit makers who were childhood friends will band together to take out Truxton, Julius Caesar style?

Please, please, please! Hate Truxton, sooo creepy (which I suppose speaks to the actor's skills, but... ::shivers:: ).

I think I need to stp letting my DVR catch Rubicon and watching it much later on Sunday nights...I keep having conspiracy theory dreams and waking up all stressed.