Joel Anderson:
Well, there's a lot of things. That's a really complicated and really — it's a really smart question.
One, he was raised by his grandfather, who grew up in Jim Crow Georgia, really pushed him to excel in spite of the circumstances. That's one piece of it. Another is that he has really never recovered from what he went through in the 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearing, that that has sort of unleashed a lot of anger that he's never really gotten over.
And if you read his autobiography, you will be sort of surprised at the amount of anger that is in those pages. And, also, he's always wanted to get paid. Like, he talked about it when he worked at Monsanto in the '70s. That was a big thing. A friend that once visited him around that time noticed that he had taken down an old Malcolm X poster in his house and put up a picture of a Rolls-Royce.
So this is a guy who was motivated by money. And also, I should note, when he worked — when he started working in the Reagan administration, he wrote a memorandum for the — for Missouri Senator Danforth. It said: "We have power. Now what?"
So he's motivated about money and power, as well as all those other things.
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