Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.
I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.
Until we have a better relationship between private performance and the public truth, as was demonstrated with Watergate, we as the public are absolutely right to remain suspicious, contemptuous even, of the secrecy and the misinformation which is the digest of our news.