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These were strips for May 7, 1973, and Garry Trudeau told me via an email interview that up until that point he worked with a six-week advance schedule. “To avoid another Ehrlichman incident—and to enhance timeliness, I started cutting it closer and closer until the strip was finally distributed only one week in advance,” he wrote. He says he would have tried to salvage any storyline he could from material he had to dump. In fact, you can find a few of these reworked later in the year.