As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.
Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.