I didn’t go on secret squirrel missions very often, but I have done a few. Back in D.C. after one, I got a call from a former Secretary of Defense, he wanted to have breakfast. I told him that I would happy to have breakfast, but I told him that I would only tell him those things that I had been authorized to say, and I would tell the White House about what happened at the meeting. We didn’t have breakfast. Some time later, he told me that he would always remember that conversation because no one did that sort of thing.
Wow.