Mr. Jang is seen by analysts as a shrewd power broker who has drawn generals and party officials to his side.
Many observers felt confirmed in their view that the Christian Democrats (CDU), while led by a very shrewd power player, are losing any distinctive ideological profile.
"Call her shrewd, power hungry or plain old 'being in the right place at the right time' - this typist has become a kingmaker in Zimbabwe's succession politics," she says.
When Bobby tells his father the day after the 1960 election that it was the closest margin in history, Joe Kennedy dryly replies, "You think I was going to pay for a landslide?" Mr. Wilkinson plays the shrewd, willful power broker so well and so appealingly, he dominates the series and almost makes the Borgia pope seem humdrum.
Called "Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment," the hourlong film — shot over a two-day period in June 1963, broadcast on ABC four months later and now available on DVD — is worth the new president's time not so much for its subject matter, which is well worn, but rather as a portrait of what shrewd executive power is all about.
These claims were repeated again and again in the early stages of the campaign when Trump was attempting to establish himself as the shrewd outsider whose powers of judgment had ultimately been vindicated against the establishment.
Phineas is by turns shrewd about his power over women and ashamed of it.
Mr. Kennan's presentation of Stalin as a fanatical revolutionary rather than a shrewd calculator of power is overdrawn, and his emphasis on Marxist ideology as a motivating force, as opposed to considerations of security and national purpose, is at odds with his later positions.
Cloaked within their We-the-People-view of governance, however, is both a shrewd grasp at power and an attempt to bend the GOP majority toward their more conservative positions.
