Original sentence: " Taking these drafts, Welles drastically condensed and rearranged them, then added scenes of his own.I used what I wanted of Mank's and, rightly or wrongly, kept what I liked of my own.In addition to Hearst, the character of Charles Foster Kane was also based on publisher Robert McCormick and other media moguls, including Joseph Pulitzer, as well as businessman Samuel Insull, who built the Civic Opera House in Chicago for his wife, a singer.Lederer became the stepfather of Welles' daughter.On Welles's instruction, Houseman wrote the opening narration as a pastiche of The March of Time newsreels.Orson Welles explained to Peter Bogdanovich about the writers working separately by saying, "I left him on his own finally, because we'd started to waste too much time haggling.So, after mutual agreements on storyline and character, Mank went off with Houseman and did his version, while I stayed in Hollywood and wrote mine.The industry accused Welles of underplaying Mankiewicz's contribution to the script, but Welles countered the attacks by saying, "At the end, naturally, I was the one making the picture, after all—who had to make the decisions.The screenplay's use of multiple narrative perspectives came from Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, which was a work that Welles wanted to film.Welles added autobiographical allusions to Kane, most noticeably in the treatment of Kane's childhood and particularly, regarding his guardianship.Welles added features from other famous American lives to create a general and mysterious personality, rather than the narrow journalistic portrait drawn by Mankiewicz.Welles himself had a relationship, several times removed, to Hearst as Marion Davies' nephew Charles Lederer had married Welles's ex-wife Virginia Nicolson Welles in 1940.Welles insisted that Citizen Kane was an idea he conceived with Mankiewicz that was initially titled The American.Welles reportedly gave Mankiewicz 300 pages of notes and assigned John Houseman to work with him, and to  ensure Mankiewicz stayed sober.Welles' Version of Events