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)
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