RIP, Admiral.
You know, as I get older, I tend to see more of the linkage between supposedly "random" events..Had Perot not run...Bush would have been re-elected, and the GOP would never have captured the Congress in 94...and W would not have been elected president only one term after his dad left the WH..
He was an absolute stud during his time in the Hanoi Hilton. He kept all the guys together. Return with honor was his mantra.