You do know about the 1930s phenomenon of diplomats and other prominenti flying home cooing about how Herr Hitler is greatly misunderstood? Personal acquaintanc

You do know about the 1930s phenomenon of diplomats and other prominenti flying home cooing about how Herr Hitler is greatly misunderstood? Personal acquaintance is not always a better way to judge someone's real character than the documentary evidence. Speaking of which: I'd have to dig to find the reference, but I've read (part of) a book by a psychologist at Microsoft. She stated that one of her official duties was to try to help people deal with their billg sessions. Pretty unusual even by the standards of high-level business meetings, yes? I feel embarrassed even mentioning SJ: let's begin with the 500-page official biography, which in turn corroborates (or sometimes just regurgitates) first-person accounts, books by fairly-well-regarded authors like Steven Levy and Michael S. Malone ... Are you meaning to include this kind of evidence under the category of 'media noise'?