He did something he rarely did. He decided not to see things from the other guy's point of view.
He understood the code of his social class enough to affect an air of indifference about life.
I can see that spark coming back when he talks about the future.
He forced himself into good spirits.
Time after time during the next six months, he would put me together again.
The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.
His charm was not electric, but it was enveloping.
Abilene possessed greater vision, perhaps because it possessed little else.
He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.
It may be that the voice of the people is the voice of God 51 times out of 100. But the remaining 49 times, it is the voice of the devil, or worse, the voice of a fool. Theodore Roosevelt
Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still.
He was trying to find his footing in a world both familiar and foreign
He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.
Such was the code: Strive for victory, but never seem to be self-involved.
He has not shown the special interest in reading that we should like to see but he likes shop work. George H. W. Bush's parents on his Andover application
Grant made the perfect candidate, a war hero with indistinct views on most political issues.
Fatigue could be the dealmaker's friend.
The very lack of explicit pressure was itself a compelling force, for it created a world in which the expectation of success was simply there, a fact of life as basic as breakfast.
When he came in first, he was happy to find all sorts of meaning in the results.
He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.