2. I completed and delivered my slightly revised manuscript in June, 1980, ten months before my appointment. 3. I was appointed to my position by the President partly as a result of my writings on privatization, especially an earlier version of the last chapter of the book. 4. A negligible amount of work was done on the book by HUD staff at my request just before printing. Specifically, some changes were typed in to reflect Administration positions, as suggested in part by White House staff. I did not immediately recall that minor effort when suddenly questioned about it by a hostile reporter a year and a half later. 5. Some proofreading and typing were apparently ordered by an overzealous assistant without my knowledge, authority, or desire; this was unwanted, unnecessary, and demonstrably redundant. In fact, it introduced errors into the final manuscript. 6. The book and its ideas contributed directly to the policies and the work of the Administration. The President's advisor on domestic policy wrote the forward of the book and three other senior White House staff members endorsed the book in writing. I was advised later that if I had sought a legal opinion beforehand, and before the press story, the work would doubtless have been approved. 7. There are numerous precedents where professors and others serving in government wrote books, in whole or in part, while in office to help promote their Administration's policies. Among the many who apparently did so are Arthur Schlesinger (2), Theodore Sorensen (2), John Kenneth Galbraith (6), Jeane Kirkpatrick (2), Charles Schultz (1), Arthur Okun (1), Daniel Patrick Moynihan (4), Henry Kissinger (3), Elliot Richardson (1), and Joseph Califano (1). (Numbers indicate the number of books involved.) In most cases the author openly acknowledges the assistance of government employees. To single out my small effort for criticism calls into question the motives and judgment of the critics.