"That's what we want to find out."
"And how are you going to do it?"
"By men. We've come to a time when the country is going to need stronger men than it ever had, and more of them."
I suppose it is because I am a woman that I have to bring all questions to the personal.
"And is your Stacy Grainger going to be one?"
He walked on a few paces without replying, his head in the air.
"No," he said, at last, "I don't think so. He's got a weakness."
"What kind of weakness?"
"I'm not going to tell you," he laughed. "It's enough to say that it's one which I think will put him out of commission for the job." He gave me some inkling, however, of what he meant when he added: "The country's coming to a place where it will need disinterested men, and whole-hearted men, and clean-hearted men, if it's going to pull through. It's extraordinary how deficient we've been in leaders who've had any of these characteristics, to say nothing of all three."
"Is the United States singular in that?"