Little Known Fact About My Early Career #1: My first editing job was for Professor _Albert Wohlstetter and Roberta Wohlstetter, international policy advisor, for whom I edited letters to policy-makers, reports, congressional testimony, book and magazine articles. Only recently did I learn that Richard Holbrooke, while an editor at Foreign Policy magazine (before becoming ambassador to the United Nations) said that editing for Albert “… was the most difficult single editing job of my entire life.” Really? And all that time I thought it was me!
Little Known Fact About My Early Career #2: After leaving the Wohlstetter's employ, I was a story analyst and personal assistant for the film director Herbert Ross, who declared me "one of the only people who can read for me!"