I agree...fascintating letters. Thank you VERY MUCH for sharing them.

It is a mystery what he felt he had to gain by asking for these things. Could he have been that sure that the success of GFII depended upon his presence???????????

All said & done...I would love to have been a fly on the wall of the Castellano home on Oscar night, 1975.

Apple

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.

- THOMAS JEFFERSON