Dick, you said,
.... nor have I harassed people with 5, 10 or 15 phone calls a day.
I know that statement to be incorrect, as the political adviser who answered your repeated calls, hourly for days, when trying to promote youself into the top job at CAA (or what ever the incarnation was at the time) was a friend of mine until she died last year.
She went onto say that The Minister eventually appointed you because it was the only way to get some peace & quiet in the office.
