In 48 years, we never exchanged a cross word, and I take no credit for that. It's hard to go through life and not have enemies. John Marinatto may be the only person I know who didn't have enemies. He was extremely well liked and well respected.

Mike Tranghese

I had many conversations with him because that was absolutely not the case, the deck was stacked. There were circumstances totally out of his control.

He loved working, but he loved being in the background.