In fact, it was teeming with smart, ambitious men whose business instincts were in many cases as sharp as those of the CEOs who had wined and dined me six months earlier when I was a rising star in the Missouri Senate.
Zapravo, vrvio je pametnim,  ambicioznim muškaracima čiji je poslovni osjećaj  u mnogim slučajevima jednako oštar onom direktora koji su me salijetali šest mjeseci ranije dok sam bio zvijezda u usponu  u senatu Missourija.