A Washington political player forwarded an article that includes a line about Shultz’s famous tattoo: the Princeton tiger on his backside. That reminds me of something from the second Reagan term (I believe). Shultz was in bad odor with a lot of conservatives — insufficiently supportive of the contras, too accommodating of Gorby, etc. Patrick J. Buchanan, who was then like the most enjoyable polemicist in the land, said that Reagan ought to start kicking some tail: “beginning with the one with the tattoo.”

Oh, Pat! Dove sei?