More from Joe Klein's (a/k/a Anonymous) 1996 best-seller Primary Colors:
And I'd made it through. It was clear that . . . something had just transpired. And I was now part of it, a co-conspirator. I wasn't sure yet that these were people to be trusted. But they were up to something fascinating; their canvas was larger than the tiny brushwork I'd learned in the House. They had a sense of inevitability about them, a sense of entitlement. They didn't flaunt it -- it was almost casual; indeed, they were less vain than most politicians. They didn't require any of the usual empty ceremonies of deference and pomposity; they didn't need the reassurance. Their calm, absolutely certain sense of destiny represented a level of audacity well beyond the imaginings of the bulked-up student-body presidents cluttering the Congress. Their ambition was for something beyond public office. It was too breath-taking to be discussed openly; the scope of the project was simply assumed. It was colossal. I found it nervous-making, over the top -- and exhilarating. I had grown up in a politics of logic, compromise, and detail. I was ready for a ride.
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