Speer knew Hitler as a "solicitous paterfamilias"

In these early years of Don Carlos’s life, relations with the pater- familias were still good

He is a man of about forty, Jewish, American, pleasant-looking, a bit of a paterfamilias.

who appears to play the role of a surrogate paterfamilias

He was born in one of its North Shore suburbs; he was raised, reached adulthood, and became a paterfamilias as a “typical suburbanite.”