A SENSE OF WHERE HE'S GOING
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON about Senator Bill Bradley. Tells about his gesture of obeisance to writer, which impressed writer as self-deprecating. It is …
Bill Bradley greeting the reporter: "He grasped it routinely, but then, instead of shaking it, he lowered himself with a sudden fluid grace, folding like a jackknife to rest on his right knee. With my hand still in his, he bent his head in a brief, mocksolemn bow and swept his long left arm in an exaggerated gesture of obeisance—a kind of cartoon courtier's genuflection."