[DoughtyOne]

I agree with your take on it.

He wasn’t out there seeking recognition or high fives.

He just told it like it was with no braggadocio > IMO.

[The Westerner]

I agree. It was worth staying up late to watch in real time. I have watched him during the 70’s and 80’s when I lived in his town. He's got attitude down pat. Very rarely do any of us get to know him as a quiet sort of man, more like his wife, kind, gentle, but completely focused. He has the Scottish tendency to say sentences twice, obviously a familial thing. He fools us with his grade school adjectives, great, amazing, terrific. Fooled me actually.. In sum, for once through two international press conferences, he was asked serious questions which allowed him to display the depth and breadth of his knowledge.