Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

I was briefly boggled this morning by some old and not at all secret information that someone passed on to a mailing list that I sometimes read (and occasionally still participate in).

Henry Paulson, the Treasury Secretary, who for the moment has all sorts of worrisome authority, was a White House aide in his youth. Specifically, he was John Ehrlichman's assistant in 1972 and 1973.