Wearing designer sneakers, hip-hugging maroon trousers, a trim plaid shirt rolled to the elbows, and elegant stubble, he began to pace in front of a whiteboard.
In that tape and the one released on Friday, militants do not appear; the only image is of Ms. Hassan in a trimmed white shirt, framed from her shoulders up.
The new secretary of state for culture, media and sport has a very presidential air: young (44), family-friendly (one wife, four children), wealthy (from his pre-politics career at Deutsche Bank) and gym-trim, his shirt crisp and creaseless at 4pm on a humid London afternoon.
Purchase or find some trim collared shirts.
"People know what you mean when you say 'the "Mad Men" look': a two-button, trim suit, a crisp shirt and a pocket square, the mod look of the '60s".
The former President, wearing a trim suit and white shirt, open at the collar, joins Letterman for an hour-long conversation that was recorded before a small audience, this fall, in New York.
Yet in his trim suit and dark shirt he couldn't look less ruffled and more psyched to see me, urging me to partake in refreshments ("No tea? You sure? But you must be so hot!") and latching immediately on to my transatlantic accent.
"Snip, snip, snip," Dr. McDonald, looking youthful in a trim black polo shirt, said.
She had a neat blue-and-white Hawaiian-print shirt, trim jeans and soft-soled saddle shoes.
Lhota dresses "smart," as it used to be said: fitted blue blazer, four brass buttons on the sleeves, striped tie, coral-blue shirt, trim copper-gray beard.
