Admiration

Do I contradict myself,? I am large. I contain multitudes.

In the above quote from Walt Whitman we see one of the dilemmas of mankind expressed. No man is absolutely all good or all evil. Even the greatest of men are flawed, and there is no man so evil that some good does not emerge from him. Because human nature is imperfect, it is often possible to admire individuals even when we deeply disagree with them on various issues. There are many examples of this in history and at the present time. In history, if we look at Richard M. Nixon, we see a man who I greatly admire for his foreign policy. He helped open China and Russia, was responsible for helping reduce nuclear weapons, and his actions helped pave the way for the spread of democracy and free markets in the Soviet Union. However, Nixon was a man with many of his own demons and his paranoia drove him to commit crimes a

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