“Only if you’ve been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is, to be on the highest mountain. Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty, always remember others may hate you, but those who hate you won’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.”
This is the last words from Richard Nixon’s farewell address to the white house staffs, and this is the “tricky dick”, one of the most condemned man in U.S history, and also one of the greatest president ever in U.S history. No matter what he did in the Water Gate, he was not a corrupted president, his unique strategic view of diplomacy brought U.S to a new horizon. Even in 1989, it was him, almost the only western leader, that dared to come to China to show dissident as well as hope between China and western world.
I like Nixon and Atwater, because they both had a struggling soul. They both lose very close family member in their childhood, and bore the extreme sadness in their heart to the end of their lives. No success comes handy. Greatness always means great suffering in life.
Yorba Linda is a very quiet and beautiful town. Nixon Library sits lonely at the corner of the town. When I saw the Christmas Trees all decorated up and very few people in that place, the feel of forlornness breezed over my face. After all these years and critical moments, it is only the people who are willing to learn you and know you that would give a damn about you. Dust to dust, ashes to ashes, only memory remains.
There is no painkiller 