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In one of the many famous scenes in The Godfather, Michael Corleone tells Tom Hagen that he’s out of the family’s inner circle because war is coming with the other mob families, and “you’re not a wartime consigliere.” A man who served the family loyally and well in other circumstances was, in Michael’s view, simply the wrong man for the time.
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