I think people realized once I got invited to speak at the C.I.A. that there was no kind of hiding.
Once I was invited to Oxford, and the trustee of the Lewis estate gave me the pipe.
"I think it's very necessary that once I'm invited by the president I should go there and start interacting with the Congolese of all walks of life," he said, "and I can't do that without going to the Congo".
"Once I was invited to a Shtupperware party," I confided to my friend Ilene.
Once I was invited to the home of an extremely well to do Angeleno couple who asked my opinion of their art collection.
Once I was invited to sit in on a John Lennon recording session, and sitting at the board between him and Phil Spector was one of the most exciting things that happened to me at that job.
Once or twice, I invited Ruth Weidel to come home with me on the school bus some afternoon, to Millersport, to have supper with my family and stay the night.
Once again, I invite everyone back here approximately an hour or so after the speech is over, to read Chairman Braley's reaction to it.
