And you also knew, more or less, that if you were to go back in time 200 years and ask the following statesman with equally fabulous hair,  "Tom, what should I say?"
ご存じかもしれませんが 200年ほど遡って この同じように見事な髪をした政治家の所に行って  「ジェファーソンさん どう言うべきでしょう？」