Is it the secretiveness and the covertness? Yeah, all of that stuff.
For all his reputation for covertness, Nixon's real problem was his inability to conceal the darkly busy workings of his mind--the wheels turning, the eyes darting.
Tom Verducci in Newsday After the 2007 season, Verducci wrote a scathing column for SI.com on the team's handling of Torre's departure, writing, "There is blood everywhere on [Randy] Levine and the boys, remnants of a sloppiness and covertness The Boss never knew."