Have the Traditions been
widely accepted?
Answer
When they were first
written in early 1946 as tentative guides to
help us hang together and function, nobody paid
any attention except a few "againers" who wrote
me and asked what the hell they were about.
Nobody paid the slightest
attention but little by little as these
Traditions got around we had our clubhouse
squabbles, our little rifts, this difficulty and
that and it was found that the Traditions indeed
did reflect experience and were guiding
principles. So they took hold a little more and
a little more so that today the average A.A.
coming in the door learns at once what they're
about, about what kind of an outfit he has
really landed in and by what principles his
group and A.A. as a whole are governed.
(Transcribed from tape, Fort Worth, TX, 1954)
