I awakened thinking of a parody of a movie scene:
If you remember how to film The Godfather opened, the scene was a soliloquy by the undertaker Bonasera asking for justice for his daughter who had been beaten badly by two men attempting to take advantage of her. At the end of the supplication, the Godfather chides him for not acting as a friend and not calling him godfather to which the undertaker with sincere sorrow and regret asks tearfully for him to please be his friend and calls him godfather with remorse for not having done so. The godfather says that he will perform an act of justice but that he may call upon the undertaker at some point to provide a service and he hopes that he will do so without hesitation. It’s a very poignant and important scene in the cell, and of course Bonasera is required to fix Sonny after he is massacred by the machine-gunners so that he can be visualized by his mother at his funeral.
So I pictured Aileen Cannon asking The Godfather-President for a federal judicial appointment in the same manner, confessing her sins and begging and her wish was granted but he states that at some point she may need to provide a service for him and she asserts that she will do so without hesitation.
In the book at the film the difference between Moe Greene and Johnny Fontaine is that when The latter is asked to sign a contract to perform at the casinos, he agrees immediately and says anything for my godfather. Moe Greene refuses to sell his casino to Michael Corleone and for that he receives a bullet in the eye and thus into the brain.
This is how it works: If you re-read the book, you will see that it is a metaphor for this particular presidential administration and its aftermath. I think that the two essential books to understand the underpinnings of this guy, for he certainly does not read much, were Mein Kampf and The Godfather. Or maybe he just watched the movie…
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