“No, no, no,” he said. “We want to get you in and get you out.” We were to downplay my role, he explained, as strictly administrative. I was an assistant, nothing more. The committee was dragging me into things I probably knew little about. I should not emphasize my access or volunteer anything I was not directly asked, nor should I try to refresh my memory. “The less you remember, the better,” he advised, and added, “Is there anything you’re worried they’ll ask you?” “Yes,” I answered, “that’s why I asked for a calendar.” But I relented, and resumed trying to reconstruct events from memory,
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