At 6:42 PM -0700 8/7/06, Greg Stafford wrote:
>YGWV
>Quoting John Hughes <nysalor_at_...>:
>
>>
>> To move from the mythic to the everyday, I have suggested in the past
>> that a Harsting Reeve is the chief's bureaucrat and professional
>> pain-in-the-backside, doing all the everyday, bullying, counting and
>> on-the-side deal making that is beneath a chief's heroic dignity.
>
>Rather much like Sir Kay to King Arthur.
One of my favourite West Wing quotes demonstrates the principle nicely
Josh - "President Bartlet's a good man. He's got a good heart. He
doesn't hold a grudge. That's what he pays me to do."
Cheers
David