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What would be the guidelines?

Well, there are some, and I've forgotten what Carl uses. But he's got a set of guidelines that I think make a lot of sense. But I just--unless they might be in there. I'm not sure.

Not in any detail.

No.

How would you characterize the kind of person that's invited into AEA? What is the membership like?

Well, you know some of the names--because you've seen them. They're generally people who have had a distinguished career in business. I don't know how the original group was put together, but let's assume that, by luck or by foresight, they were selected carefully. Then they, in turn, will tell you that somebody else would like to get in, or that they would like to bring somebody else in. And, generally, a member of the AEA group isn't going to recommend somebody who isn't acceptable. So that it's not difficult to expand the group, because almost every guy has somebody at home like him that he can say: “Gee, I'd like to have Joe brought in.”

But nobody gets in by reading or hearing about it and knocking on the door. Henry Kissinger is a member, for example. [M.I.] Carey of IBM. Tom [Thomas J. Watson Jr.]. They were all members of AEA. If it's a disreputable entrepreneur--and we can think of some in the city or