It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

History knows no resting place and no plateaus.

History knows no resting place and no plateaus

It's never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn't know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.