Mr. Robert Cuellar, Los Angeles, California: an interview by Greg Coronado, December 27, 1972; Mr. Robert Cuellar, Westchester, California: an interview by Greg Coronado, December 26, 1972

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INTERVIE\ Cuellar Page 20 then you have the other type like that everybody thinks about. \~hen you say, 1 Hey, do we have any Chic a no leaders?' 'Oh yeah, there's Ceasar Chavez. 1 He would probably be the most prominently known of the Chicano leaders, because of his commitment to one cause, farm workers and because of his ability to organize that, to have kept it organized, but there is also one small limitation to his leadership. The limitation to stay within the farm workers cause and that's it, and it has not yet moved from there. So we don't have very many persons in the leadership quality that you might say this person is such a leader that he is an institution. I think we're lacking that . But on the other hand I think that it will be developed pretty quickly . You begin to build that leadership . I think that we need some training in the building of leaders in this country. There is the community support that is needed to do that. Everytime a name comes up that is considered a leader, there needs to be the building of it . The news media helps. There's a lot of variables and a lot of vehicles to do it but the 'Messiah' for the Chicano has not come up, yet. GC: I seem to run across one comment, from a gentleman that I inter ­viewed and he made a comment talking about a paid leader and I seem to remember back in the 60's, one of the tactics for organizing was that all the leaders or officers of say the GI Forum were unpaid, that they dedicated, that the only thing that they were paid for would be expenses. Then this individual made a comment that