But Wolfowitz, when he exited the Pentagon for the World Bank, recalled to many the career shift of Robert McNamara, but not its spirit. He came driven by that same spirit of transformation and re-ordering. Corruption was to be tackled, and vested interests in poverty eradication were to be brought to account. As it turned out, a very small detail — in fact, a very silly oversight — expelled the largeness of that vision from the Bank on Washington, DC’s H Street.