Read his book “National Party No More” - that will give you a lot of insight into the man.
He went to the mountains to retire, wanted to sit on his front porch and shoot rattlesnakes....He left a lot of those behind him when he departed DC...
I was just thinking about him lately, and how after he had left DC, I heard him give an interview on the radio.
He obviously couldn’t say some things out loud, but his voice trembled a little. Maybe fear for the future of the country.
He was about as tough as they come, so whatever was wrong with his party was more than he could fix from the inside.
His book was on eBay recently for a dollar a copy, but I don’t have a spare minute these days so I didn’t get it
My sister is retired now and would love to read it for her own interest, and could give me the highlights, so I guess I’ll plan on ordering it when I get back to work, tomorrow.