He stood by his claim that climate change was a hoax, he told reporters later, even though it is not.
Later, even he conceded he had stumbled in answering a question about how he would respond to a terrorist attack on American soil.
It was, he told me later, even more awkward than most first dates.
Despite this, Lawson magnanimously re-employed Waugh as a novel reviewer, where he honed his talent for vituperation, which he later and even more brilliantly practised in the obscure magazine Books & Bookmen.
"If he was bad, then we have certainly turned his cash to the better... and maybe, to give him for a moment the benefit of the doubt, if he had been born a hundred years later even he would have thought differently".
Ambitious for a European and permanent reputation, the essayist and philosopher Francis Bacon wrote in Latin as well as in English; but, if he had lived only a few decades later, even he might have had total confidence in his own tongue.
He still sounded giddy about the experience three days later, even though he said he might accede to Piazza's suggestion that the bat be auctioned off for charity.
He started thinking about David Kelly as a film, he suggested to me later, even before his death, having watched his appearance at the Foreign Affairs Committee.
A visit two years ago left him so enthralled that he moved from Atlanta a few months later, even though he owned a home there.
Instead, it is that big case up in Washington that won Representative Graham notice, the one he is still talking about a year later even though he lost and the defendant got off.
