Giannini was getting old.
His ability to expand and innovate was clearly declining.
Despite working for so many years, he had never established a strong network with the government. His influence extended only to the local government in California and a few Washington senators.
For a company, those connections might be enough, but for a consortium, they were clearly insufficient.
Their influence couldn't bring enough benefits to a vast financial group.
But Hardy?
He had backed Johnson's re-election campaign and had managed to push a seemingly impossible candidate into office. Initially, no one had realized it, but after the election, many analyzed the process and discovered that Hardy's maneuvers had been nothing short of brilliant.
He was a true master of strategy.
