He was happy taking notes on file cards that he carried with him.
Going that extra mile even when you don't get the job can be something that gets remembered when they do need someone with your skills base and they still have your notes on file.
As part of this investigation, federal officials found that staff members who were supposed to track detention requests appeared "to rely upon memory or handwritten notes on files," and in any case, could not communicate with the detainees in Spanish.
"Remainder of letter is deleted and closed under Section 5 (1), 50 years," runs a 2002 note on the file.
However a note on his file said his response to this question was "changed from N to Y", meaning No to Yes.
Officials regarded problem-solving as putting a note on a file to say they had passed it to someone else.Mr Storey brought in management consultants.
Thatcher's personal diary lists at least three face-to-face meetings with him at Downing Street, and in October 1984 a note on the file shows that he had phoned her in alarm that the press had found out that he had direct access to her.
Studio production notes, also on file at the academy library, described her as "perky".
A note on the files warned not to offer Mossack Fonseca's own staff as nominee directors or shareholders.
You might conclude, after reading Cohen's note on the filing, that the Judiciary Committee should just cancel the hearing at which he is supposed to testify tomorrow, and tell Attorney General Eric Holder and Tom Wheeler, the former cable lobbyist who heads the F.C.C., to wave through the merger without further delay.
