Jubal paused for a swig. "But consider.  Those S.S. thugs are just a tool; they aren't yet a Praetorian Guard that picks the new Caesar.  Such being, whom do you really want for Caesar?  Courthouse Joe whose basic indoctrination goes back to the days when this country was a nation and not just a satrapy in a polyglot empire of many traditions... Douglas, who really can't stomach assassination?  Or do you want to toss him out of office (we can, you know, tomorrow - just by double-crossing him on the deal I've led him to expect - toss him out and thereby put in a Secretary General from a land where life has always been cheap and political assassination a venerable tradition?  If you do this, Ben - tell me what happens to the next snoopy newsman who is careless enough to walk down a dark alley?"