It was set to "No." so I expect that was the reason. - No Tony, that made no difference, even after enabling "allow unfiltered content" the html gets stripped except for the leading and trailing p tags. This has to work or I can't use this and will have to try another solution I could use the Agenda and Minutes plugin and create articles for the agenda and minutes, but I feel that adds a complexity which will not be acceptable to the persons writing the agendas and minutes.
Another thing, I have created my own ACLs for Joomla and don't use the Guest, Public, Registered, Author, Manager, Administrator, Super User, user groups. How do I set the the access to anyone? "Access to field when editing event" defaults to "Author" and "Access to field when viewing event" defaults to Public. If I can't choose more than one access level, then I would want to have the choice to make it available to all.because I will be using these fields in different contexts and won't know in advance which access level it will pertain to and which user group should have access.