Diplomat

A political go-between.

"Diplomacy: fine career, but bristling with difficulties, full of mysteries. Appropriate only for people of noble birth. Profession vague in meaning, but ranking above commerce. A diplomat always has shrewdness and insight."

Flaubert, Dictionary of Platitudes (1880).

[Translation by J. I. Rodale (1954).]

“His office was in the heart of the Wall Street area—in that area’s most imposing structure, the New York Fed’s Florentine palazzo on Liberty Street—and his duties included serving as the government’s banker in all foreign dealings, so he and the new President were stuck with each other whether they liked it or not. A Yale and Harvard Law School graduate, a former legal secretary to the legendary Justice Holmes, a careful bureaucrat and a tactful diplomat, Harrison was a handsome, heavy-set, pipe-smoking, crinkly-eyed, confidence-inspiring sort of man—the more confidence-inspiring, perhaps, because he walked with a limp as a result of a childhood accident. He was destined over the months ahead to have his talent for diplomacy put to the comically excruciating test of adjudicating among Roosevelt and his wilder-eyed henchmen, the irascible commercial bankers of Wall Street, and the lordly central bankers of Europe.”

John Brooks, Once in Golconda (1970).