White observed that Perkins “made quick decisions, spoke in
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- The House of Morgan - An American Banking Dynasty and the whole source · open book
White observed that Perkins “made quick decisions, spoke in a soft voice, smiled ingratiatingly, easily.” He wrote, “I used to watch him fishing for men with a certain pride in his skill, which I greatly admired.” He also declared that “he exuded pleasantly the odor of great power that came from the Morgan connection.” At the Bull Moose National Convention in 1912, White saw a “smiling, simpering” Perkins, “spick-n-span, oiled and curled like an Assyrian bull, and a young one, trim and virile.”42 From his days at New York Life, Perkins would always carry a faint spice of scandal and a reputation as a master manipulator.
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