Consiglieres are usually viewed as civilians or foreign diplomats, and are not generally targeted by rival families. It is almost an unspoken rule that a consigliere is a Sicilian , or at least an Italian , and always a family member or a trusted friend outside the Don's personal family. This rule was broken when Vito Corleone made the German-Irish Tom Hagen his full-time consigliere, causing a great controversy in the New York underworld.
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When providing legal counsel wartime consiglieres put themselves in the shoes of their clients. O penness Wartime consiglieres also pride themselves in being open, honest and transparent.
N etworker Networking and building relationships with others is part of the DNA of any wartime consigliere. S mart Risk-Taker To be considered a wartime consigliere, a lawyer needs to constantly demonstrate excellent judgment when dispensing legal advice to clients.
I mpact Wartime consiglieres are viewed as business enablers and not as business inhibiters. G row The willingness to embrace change and to stretch professionally is another important attribute of wartime consiglieres. L istener Being an active listener is critical to the success of any wartime consigliere. I nclusiveness In order to provide more thoughtful legal counsel wartime consiglieres understand they need to consider diverse and different perspectives on a particular matter.
E thics Embracing a non-negotiable mindset of high integrity and ethics is vital for any wartime consigliere. R esponsiveness Wartime consiglieres are lightning fast when responding to their clients and colleagues. He did not live long enough before seeing his son Andrew ordained as a priest.
Michael would later help Andrew receive a prestigious post at the Vatican. Tom's wife and children continued to attend Corleone events and remained close to the family. Tom's role as the Corleone family attorney was later taken over by B. Harrison after his death. Michael acknowledged his adoptive brother years after his death, stating in that Tom "was a great lawyer". Tom Hagen was married to an Italian-American woman named Theresa. Together they had four children: Frank , Andrew , born in the s, Gianna and Christina , born in the s.
They also owned a dachshund named Garbanzo and a border collie named Elvis. Andrew later becomes a priest, while Frank followed in his father's footsteps and becomes a lawyer. The Godfather Returns , Mark Winegardner's sequel to Puzo's original novel, portrays Hagen's role as consigliere in the first few years after Michael ascends to the head of the family. The novel, which covers the period from , portrays Hagen once again acting as Michael's right-hand adviser and taking an important role in the Corleones' dealings with a powerful political family, the Sheas analogous to the Kennedys.
Kennedy elected President on condition that his youngest son, Danny Robert Kennedy , the new attorney general, would take a soft stance on organized crime. Meanwhile, Hagen has sights on a political career, running for a House of Representatives seat in Nevada which Hagen was initially appointed to and serves a partial term as with the ultimate goal of becoming the state's governor; he is badly defeated, however, due to his connections with the Corleones, and he abandons any hopes of holding public office.
The novel also portrays Hagen covering up for Michael's brother Fredo when he kills a man in San Francisco , and bailing him out of jail when he attacks his wife's lover. Hagen and Fredo get into an intense argument over Fredo's recklessness and Hagen's blind loyalty to Michael.
Russo, Hagen, a rower, and two of Russo's bodyguards went out on a gondola in his man-made lake. On the course of the trip, as part of Michael's revenge, Hagen killed one man by strangulation with his belt while the rower hit the other with his oar.
Hagen then personally killed Russo on his boat, with Russo's own gun, and dumped the bodies in the lake. In Winegardner's novel The Godfather's Revenge , Hagen acts as Michael's right-hand man in dealing with the Shea family, especially Attorney General Danny Shea, who publicly declares war on organized crime.
During a Commission meeting in , Tom was arrested under suspicion of murdering his mistress, Judy Buchanan , whose death had in fact been orchestrated by enemies of the family.
This situation ruined any chance he had of a political career, despite being acquitted. During this time, he was represented by Jewish lawyer Sid Klein. His wife Theresa left him for a brief time after discovering the affair, but the two reconciled soon after and Theresa was present when Tom went to visit Jack Woltz again later in the year. In , shortly before the president's assassination, while on vacation with his family in Florida , Tom was doing some business for Michael at the Deauville Hotel in Miami , after meeting with Ben Tamarkin and Senator Patrick Geary.
He left and was surprised by Nick Geraci who had been hiding in the back of Tom's car and secretly following him for days. He had Tom drive to a rural, swamp filled area and then knocked him unconscious with his pistol.
When Tom came to, he realized that his hands and feet had been duct-taped together and that his car was sinking into the swamp and quickly filling with thick, brown water. While waiting for his death, Tom recalled some of his fondest memories: meeting Sonny, being taken in by the Corleone family, his wife Theresa, his two sons Frank and Andrew, and his two daughters Gianna and Christina. He died with happy memories in his mind, as the water engulfed Tom and the car totally.
Though his body was never found, Michael Corleone was sent by Nick Geraci a dead baby alligator with Tom Hagen's wallet in its mouth, to imply that Tom Hagen "slept with the alligators" an allusion to Luca Brasi 's death years earlier, in which his murderers sent the Corleones a dead fish to signify that Brasi "slept with the fishes".
Tom was 54 years old. The Godfather's Revenge and The Godfather Returns are not considered canon by Paramount Pictures , so this death is not canonical in the films, which implied Tom died of natural causes some time in the s. The novel also expands on how Hagen became an informally adopted member of the Corleone family.
Hagen recalls that when he was living on the streets, he saved Sonny Corleone from a pimp who was notorious for raping and murdering boys.
Sonny was so grateful that he brought Hagen home to live with his family. The Family Corleone is a prequel novel by Ed Falco , which takes place in , before the events of The Godfather. Tom Hagen is portrayed as a college student attending law school. It was only due to Vito's intervention bribing Brasi to forget the insult that Tom was not murdered by Brasi in revenge for this action. It is also revealed that Tom's father was killed on the orders of Vito Corleone before Tom was taken in by the Corleones, though only Vito, his caporegimes and Sonny were aware of this.
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