"Since Carter Wright praised you, it means he's admitting that your 'Pittsburgh Renaissance Plan' is correct and that your 'work-for-welfare' model is effective."
"And if he admits your way is right, he's indirectly admitting that what he's been doing for the past eight years has been wrong."
"And if he's wrong and you're right, then who should be listening to whom?"
Leo's eyes lit up. He'd grasped the key point in this chain of logic.
'So I shouldn't just thank him,' Leo thought. 'I should guide him.'
"Exactly," Roosevelt said approvingly.
"This is the key to dispelling the suspicion. When your supporters see that you haven't become humble and subservient because of the Mayor's praise—that you're instead taking the high ground, evaluating and even directing Carter Wright like a teacher with a student, or a future mayor with a retiring civil servant..."
