Like Bill Clinton before him, he has developed a gift for wriggling out of controversies by seizing the initiative and creating a third option.
The son of the popular landscapist Joseph Vernet, the younger Vernet early exhibited a gift for painting and came to develop an acute eye for natural detail.
As a Mormon missionary, he was assigned to proselytize from a soap box in Hyde Park in London, where he developed a gift for salesmanship that became the hallmark of his career.
According to a profile in the New York Times, Romney's father, George, was born in Mexico "in a colony of Mormons who had fled a crackdown on polygamy... As a Mormon missionary, he was assigned to proselytise in London from a soapbox in Hyde Park, where he developed a gift for salesmanship that became the hallmark of his career".
What does this mean, you ask? Deutsch and Dooley point out that auditory digit span has previously been identified as a genetic component, drawing the conclusion that memory abilities passed on through genes could explain why only some of the children exposed to musical training actually develop a gift for identifying tones.
Noting that the decades of political ferment and activism have failed to bring much positive change to the nation, he concludes that the only real talent boomers have developed is a gift for "hanging out".
But while those lines suggest that Mr. Holstein may have a gift for comic dialogue, that talent is barely developed here, and those lines don't add up to a play, not even one composed of quick scenes and blackouts.
He had, Caro writes, natural gifts: a compelling voice, pleasant looks, "a gift for getting along with people that was so highly developed as to be almost genius".
Mr Jason Sylvester told us that it was a gift from the CFU for developing football in Surinam.
