Experts always know everything but the fine points. When I took my citizenship exams, no one there knew how the White House came to be called the White House.
I think when people talk about ambition and talking to him, it might have seemed that he wasn't ambitious.
I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives.