After the 1964 convention Herb Williams and Boyd Payton, who had been members of the Executive Council Majority faction and who had been directors of several southern states each, left the Union. This created a vacuum. Pollock decided to combine the South into one region with Swaity as its director. Mike Botelho, who was also part of the Majority and had been director of the Southeast region, was made Swaity's assistant. Swaity felt bad that Botelho had been displaced as a regional director, so he gave Botelho responsibility for the administrative/servicing functions and devoted his own energies almost entirely to organizing.
