He does not like twisting arms, LBJ's forte, preferring the force of reason, a commodity not in over-supply in the nation's capital.

But many say he nevertheless is more in the mold of the quiet, no-questions-asked company men who built the C.I.A. in the 1960's and 70's and ran it in the 80's.

[H]is Enemies […] had still the same Power, and the same Malice, and a froppish Kind of Insolence, that delighted to deprive him of any Thing that pleased him, and manifestly pleased itself in vexing him.

We left the carriage, bought programmes, and walked across the infield and then across the smooth thick turf of the course to the paddock.