The President's Council (click on)
In his preface, Minutaglio refers to a source who told him that “Gonzales was like a man who always seemed to be holding something inside, like someone whose skin practically bulged with all the confidences he had accumulated.” That person added that each time he envisioned Gonzales, he drew a mental picture of him leaning over and whispering to someone. That person suggested that if Gonzales ever sat for a portrait, it should be rendered in the manner of Rembrandt’s “’The Evangelist Matthew’”—with Gonzales as the mostly hidden, gauzy figure hovering behind the more clearly depicted and important-looking man in the foreground... And resting a few fingertips on the important man’s back... and leaning in to murmur in that man’s ear.”