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.
He forced himself into good spirits.
I can see that spark coming back when he talks about the future.
Time after time during the next six months, he would put me together again.
His charm was not electric, but it was enveloping.
He was a generous but subtly demanding boss.
The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.
Abilene possessed greater vision, perhaps because it possessed little else.
He was trying to find his footing in a world both familiar and foreign
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 a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.
Fatigue could be the dealmaker's friend.
Grant made the perfect candidate, a war hero with indistinct views on most political issues.
Such was the code: Strive for victory, but never seem to be self-involved.
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.
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
When he came in first, he was happy to find all sorts of meaning in the results.
His was a quiet but persistent charisma.