A Man Of The Cloth

When I first started reading this, I thought Tyrrell was writing about Al Gore.

"I have met one of the prodigies of the age. I actually shook his hand. He is an amiable, suave, butterball of a man with slicked back hair that curls up at the back of his neck. He has a blues-singer's voice that would charm the birds out of the trees. The voice would be particularly effective if the birds carried cash with them or had other transferable assets."

It's Al all right. Just not the Al I was thining of.