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He was honored as an elder statesman of the avant-garde, housed in Oakland by Bobby Seale, hired as a guest lecturer at Berkeley, embraced by white hippies.
It described Gingrich's exploitation of his domestic political power to make his own foreign policy as "an unprecedented, unhealthy and dangerous situation," and added that by fighting against his country's diplomacy, he had "forfeited the right to be considered a statesman."
Still, there's a certain irony in Grove's ascent to elder statesman, because the idea of him as shaper of the future makes it easy to miss how much Grove and Intel were products of what's now described as the corporate past.
Republicans extolled Livingston's courage, lamented the loss of a great statesman, and blamed the ouster on White House dirty tricks.
Thus have they given us Hitler as "psychopathic god" and "unprincipled opportunist," but never as "statesman"--a title that, even in the age of the Kissingers and the Pinochets, has lost little of its luster.