He was by no means a business man or an ordinary party politician, but a man of force, personality, and importance.

What, then, was his temperament?
The clue once found was illuminating.

The President was like a Nonconformist minister, perhaps a Presbyterian.

His thought and his temperament wore essentially theological not intellectual, with all the strength and the weakness of that manner of thought, feeling, and expression.

It is a type of which there are not now in England and Scotland such magnificent specimens as formerly; but this description, nevertheless, will give the ordinary Englishman the distinctest impression of the President.
With this picture of him in mind, we can return to the actual course of events.