I think Hadley is to Rice as Scowcroft was to Kissinger; not inclined to think or act independently.
We took up the offer with the BBC, and that was Monty Python's Flying Circus. I didn't have to submit my ideas to the group. I used to turn up on the days we recorded with a can of film under my arm, and in it went.
I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.

