Working as an intern at the Presidential Palace could be considered one of the prerequisites all top politicians had to fulfill at the beginning of their careers, or one of the standards for becoming a top politician.
Gladstone, Conner, the short old man, the Speaker, and roughly one-third of the senators in Congress had all once interned at the Presidential Palace.
During their internships, they came into contact with an enormous number of resources and used their own advantages to turn those resources into their own assets and connections.
Political resources were always the most important—and hardest to obtain—resources in the political arena. Nothing else came close.
That could be seen from the way the brokers operated. No matter how much money they were offered, they would never let their employers and targets sit down face-to-face and talk. They would not even allow them to communicate by phone.
Instead, the brokers themselves constantly shuttled back and forth between the two sides.
They were not stupid, nor were they afraid of hard work. They simply did not want the resources in their hands to slip away.
Besides, experience as an intern at the Presidential Palace made a person's résumé look much better.
Lynch had given the Lieutenant General a fruit he could not refuse. If his younger son could intern at the Presidential Palace, even if it was only for half a year—
His path would be much smoother when he entered politics in the future. If he could also obtain help from Lynch and his York Gang, becoming a governor or something similar would definitely not be a problem.
This made the Lieutenant General even more certain of his decision—to maintain a close cooperative relationship with Lynch!
He could not suppress his happiness. In a lively voice, he asked tactfully,