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Tim Weiner, author of a history of the FBI, recently captured the time-warp from which former agency director and current special counsel Robert Mueller seems to have sprung."I saw a man who is outwardly very formal, he always wears a button-down shirt, he always wears a dark suit, he dresses as if it were 1956 and Frank Sinatra is on the radio and Eisenhower is in the White House," Weiner told the BBC in aThings truly do go in cycles.
Ours is an age in which the highest good is self-expression, the gaudier the better. Mueller still inhabits an age in which the highest good isMost people today believe the best self-promoters are the biggest winners. Mueller has spent decades avoiding not onlyWe live in a world where gaining, and holding, attention is the chief form of capital. In Mueller’s world, results are the only capital with redeemable value.
He’s been described as intensely private. This isn’t simply a personal, introversion tendency—it’s rooted in his view of public service as something that calls for one’s own agenda to take a backseat to higher matters. To bring up another beloved, honorable figure from the past, he’s a Ned Stark for our moment.as “probably America’s straightest arrow, very by-the-book, very professional.”
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