That he had been diagnosed in 1996 and had recovered sufficiently to win his first Tour de France in 1999, and lock in his first multi-million dollar ad campaign earlier than that, and that those striking commercial actors making $7,000 a year probably included a few cancer survivors and a lot of families to feed, didn’t seem a factor to him. . It would be appropriate, I would think, for the secretary of state to want to know how this trip came about and what happened, so that he wouldn’t be blind-sided by questions about it.