Note 43 — Chapter Twenty-six

Time and time again, I’ve heard my Mother tell the story of Davey running through the rainbow, that prophetic evening that Father took the boy to task for his habit of the slow decision. A trait that ultimately was to become his surest asset, this ability of his to think slowly and surely toward a conclusion, and then act with leaping swiftness. I have it from my brother first-hand that although he signed the Air Lane bill, then known as Schuyler’s Cyclone Act, at the conclusion of his last term in Congress, actually he had given the matter six years of detailed premeditation.