But Mr. Paterson said that once he accepted Mr. Spitzer's offer and it became public, "it then was something we all wanted to do".
Greed is just as infectious as it then was, its spread facilitated by modern means of communications.
For its first decade, the Booker (as it then was) threw up some pretty insular, white, middle-class dominated shortlists.
Its mission, as the White House put it then, was to "hold accountable those who helped bring about the last financial crisis and to prevent another crisis from happening".
After the bowl increased its payout to $2.8 million per squad, it then was given the second pick from the ACC, with the Gator Bowl dropping to third.
Having advocated withdrawal from the EEC, as it then was, in 1983, the Labour movement reversed its position in the late 1980s.
The motivation for it then was racism.
I left Czechoslovakia - as it then was - in 1939.
"Then, as now, most voters wanted to leave the Common Market (as it then was).
"Harpers & Queen, as it then was, was more like Tatler," she says.
