An English colleague recently remarked that, for him and his friends, it was Harry Kewell who made them take notice of Australian football.
The prepared text of his remarks had called for him to say "fellow citizens".
But Mr. Mineta made clear in brief remarks today that, for him, transportation was not a partisan field.
He's a demagogue now, and every single newspaper in Texas with a decent editorial page should denounce these remarks and call for him to retract them publicly or resign.
His principal props were Ernest Bevin, a pragmatic trade unionist who had made his mark during the war as an energetic labour minister, Labour stalwart Hugh Dalton, and Stafford Cripps, an aloof intellectual (Churchilll once remarked of him: "There but for the grace of God, goes God").
Seizing on Mr. Parker's remarks, Senate Republicans called for him to be censured.
Nor with Gilles Jacob, president of the Festival, who, it must be remarked, also reacted untypically, for him, when interviewed by the same radio station: "There's the film maker and the citizen; the film maker is an immense film maker, but then there's the citizen, and no one is above the law".
Sethi's opinion of the second apology is one he will express only off the record; he is not an off-the-record kind of guy, but there is always the danger that some intemperate public remark will create visa problems for him and keep him from doing the work he has contracted to do.
Those who work for him now remark on his exceptional political brain, on his ability to outthink his opponents with strokes of tactical genius, to present even the most dense economic argument with an eye to what will make the next day's headlines and to know, deep down in his bones, what will win over a crowd.
Mr Clinton could not say "good morning" without people parsing the remark for its political meaning.
