The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.
I have a home in Arizona. I go a couple months a year, but basically Chicago is my home.
There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series, and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye.