“If I could go back to a point in history, like rewinding a tape, I would do it all different. I really would,” he said, and in some ways his model for a better approach had become that of his son. “I would take a much softer path from the very beginning. I would be less confrontational. I would try to have fewer enemies. I would work more from within the system, rather than escaping from it. I would be patient about taking people where they were politically and then slowly moving them in my direction, rather than just shocking or scaring the hell out of them, which is what I usually did.”
