Mr Bell said nothing would happen in the immediate future because there was a lot of work to do and night flights would come into operation over the next three to five years.
He would then work in his study late into the night (where we would find him going over piles of documents and briefing books if we had trouble sleeping).
Henry Paulson, the Treasury secretary, in meeting with congressional leaders last night and saying they are going to work out a bailout under which the federal government would take over a lot of bad debt from financial firms.