english: To ward off pressure from special interests, he kept their meetings small and secret, and many of the participants later told me that it was this intimacy, plus a lot of shared tequila, that helped build confidence.
non_english: Da bi izbegao pritisak interesnih grupa, sastanke je održavao kao male i u tajnosti, a mnogi učesnici su mi kasnije rekli da je ta intimnost, plus dosta tekile koju su podelili, pomogla da se izgradi poverenje.