He has been a behind-the-scenes political manager for years after a long career as a labor organizer.
The party's political managers thought it a ruinous ploy in election year.
He was now very much the political manager, counting heads.
Perhaps more to the point, most professional political managers own an advertising agency through which all campaign expenditures are tunneled.
In a crisis, we ask him as political manager to explain to us what has happened and how we should respond.
At first, he dismissed many of his mother's political managers who dispensed patronage and kept a huge national party in line.
Many of them are politicians, hired political managers, and military leaders.
But his political managers thought the sentiment sounded well.
All involved will need these interfaces for the same reasons as the political and business managers whose decisions are being studied.
It did not take political managers long to hear opportunity when it knocked.