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Then
,
too
,
ever
since
Don
Corleone
had
made
the
peace
with
the
Five
Families
,
the
strength
of
the
Corleone
Family
had
declined
.
The
Barzini
Family
was
now
indisputably
the
most
powerful
one
in
the
New
York
area
;
allied
as
they
were
to
the
Tattaglias
,
they
now
held
the
position
the
Corleone
Family
had
once
held
.
Also
they
were
slyly
whittling
down
the
power
of
the
Corleone
Family
,
muscling
into
their
gambling
areas
,
testing
the
Corleones
'
reactions
and
,
finding
them
weak
,
establishing
their
own
bookmakers
.
The
Barzinis
and
Tattaglias
were
delighted
with
the
Don
's
retirement
.
Michael
,
formidable
as
he
might
prove
to
be
,
could
never
hope
to
equal
the
Don
in
cunning
and
influence
for
at
least
another
decade
.
The
Corleone
Family
was
definitely
in
a
decline
.
It
had
,
of
course
,
suffered
serious
misfortunes
.
Freddie
had
proved
to
be
nothing
more
than
an
innkeeper
and
ladies
'
man
,
the
idiom
for
ladies
'
man
untranslatable
but
connotating
a
greedy
infant
always
at
its
mother
's
nipple
--
in
short
,
unmanly
.
Sonny
's
death
too
,
had
been
a
disaster
.
Sonny
had
been
a
man
to
be
feared
,
not
to
be
taken
lightly
.
Of
course
he
had
made
a
mistake
in
sending
his
younger
brother
,
Michael
,
to
kill
the
Turk
and
the
police
captain
.
Though
necessary
in
a
tactical
sense
,
as
a
long-term
strategy
it
proved
to
be
a
serious
error
.
It
had
forced
the
Don
,
eventually
,
to
rise
from
his
sickbed
.
It
had
deprived
Michael
of
two
years
of
valuable
experience
and
training
under
his
father
's
tutelage
.
And
of
course
an
Irish
as
a
Consigliere
had
been
the
only
foolishness
the
Don
had
ever
perpetrated
.
No
Irishman
could
hope
to
equal
a
Sicilian
for
cunning
.
So
went
the
opinion
of
all
the
Families
and
they
were
naturally
more
respectful
to
the
Barzini-Tattaglia
alliance
than
to
the
Corleones
.
Their
opinion
of
Michael
was
that
he
was
not
equal
to
Sonny
in
force
though
more
intelligent
certainly
,
but
not
as
intelligent
as
his
father
.
A
mediocre
successor
and
a
man
not
to
be
feared
too
greatly
.
Also
,
though
the
Don
was
generally
admired
for
his
statesmanship
in
making
the
peace
,
the
fact
that
he
had
not
avenged
Sonny
's
murder
lost
the
Family
a
great
deal
of
respect
.
It
was
recognized
that
such
statesmanship
sprang
out
of
weakness
.
All
this
was
known
to
the
men
sitting
in
the
room
and
perhaps
even
believed
by
a
few
.
Carlo
Rizzi
liked
Michael
but
did
not
fear
him
as
he
had
feared
Sonny
.
Clemenza
,
too
,
though
he
gave
Michael
credit
for
a
bravura
performance
with
the
Turk
and
the
police
captain
,
could
not
help
thinking
Michael
too
soft
to
be
a
Don
.
Clemenza
had
hoped
to
be
glven
permission
to
form
his
own
Family
,
to
have
his
own
empire
split
away
from
the
Corleone
.
But
the
Don
had
indicated
that
this
was
not
to
be
and
Clemenza
respected
the
Don
too
much
to
disobey
.
Unless
of
course
the
whole
situation
became
intolerable
.
Tessio
had
a
better
opinion
of
Michael
.
He
sensed
something
else
in
the
young
man
:
a
force
cleverly
kept
hidden
,
a
man
jealously
guarding
his
true
strength
from
public
gaze
,
following
the
Don
's
precept
that
a
friend
should
always
underestimate
your
virtues
and
an
enemy
overestimate
your
faults
.
The
Don
himself
and
Tom
Hagen
were
of
course
under
no
illusions
about
Michael
.
The
Don
would
never
have
retired
if
he
had
not
had
absolute
faith
in
his
son
's
ability
to
retrieve
the
Family
position
.
Hagen
had
been
Michael
's
teacher
for
the
last
two
years
and
was
amazed
at
how
quickly
Michael
grasped
all
the
intricacies
of
the
Family
business
.
Truly
his
father
's
son
.
Clemenza
and
Tessio
were
annoyed
with
Michael
because
he
had
reduced
the
strength
of
their
regimes
and
had
never
reconstituted
Sonny
's
regime
.
The
Corleone
Family
,
in
effect
,
had
now
only
two
fighting
divisions
with
less
personnel
than
formerly
.
