At heart, Suss man was a theoretician. In another age, he might have been a Talmudic scholar. He had cultivated a Socratic method, zinging question after question at the reporters: Who moved over from Commerce to CRP with Stan's? What about Mitchell's secretary? Why won't anybody say when Lindy went to the White House, or who worked with him there? Mitchell and Stan's both ran the budget committee, right? What does that tell you? Then Suss man would puff on his pipe, a satisfied grin on his face.

All the President's Men