Best paragraph so far of Bob Woodward’s “Plan of Attack”:

The JCS staff had placed a peppermint at each place. Bush unwrapped his and popped it into his mouth. Later he eyed Choen’s mint and flashed a pantomime query, Do you want that? Cohen signaled no, so Bush reached over and took it. Near the end of the hour-and-quarter briefing, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Army General Henry “Hugh” Shelton, noticed Bush eyeing his mint, so he passed it over.