MONICA CROWLEY: WOMAN OF THE YEAR
Simply: The Classiest, the Prettiest and
the Smartest Diva of the American Media. Period!
MONICA CROWLEY: FIRST LADY OF THE AMERICAN MEDIA
She wrote her doctoral dissertation on the evolution of U.S. foreign policy toward China as it was developed under the Truman-Atkerson, and Nixon-Kissinger administrations. This was the advice of President Nixon which de facto proved to be fruitful and pragmatic. One day, Monica Crowley would explain: “He (President Nixon) was my boss, my mentor and he was also like a grandfather to me.” Monica adds: “…There’s not a day that goes by when I don’t think of him, or miss him. I miss working with him and having the intellectual banter, and learning from him. I miss the personal relationship that we had, his mannerisms, jokes and his family as well, because they’re just very fine people.”
President Nixon trusted Monica Crowley. He believed in her. He believed in her good judgment and analytical mind. This is why, he allowed her to tour the globe with him and join him in his meetings and conversations with international dignitaries and foreign heads of state wherever he went. Monica Crowley admits her life took a different path from the original one she envisaged since meeting President Nixon. He deeply influenced her life and to her future, he gave a larger dimension. And Monica is deeply grateful. “He was so much more to me than a mentor…” she said. She will always remember how generous and considerate he was toward her. “There were days I’d leave his office to go home, and I lived about an hour away, and when it was snowing, by the time I’d get home, there’d be a message on my answering machine asking me if I’d got home safely.”
Most certainly, Monica Crowley found in
President Nixon, warmth, sincere friendship and touching affection.
Qualities and virtues nourished with human goodness and limpidity of the
soul that unjustly and unfairly escaped the perimeter of the public
understanding of the American people.
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The
man was genuine, brilliant with an alert mind and high moral standards.
This statement of mine might astonish his enemies and the majority of the
American people. The truth, I tell you, the whole world shares my opinion.
To Europeans, Asians, Africans, Middle Easterners, Near Easterners, Arabs,
citizens of the known and unknown world, Richard Nixon was the greatest
American president of all time. A president with visions, ethics and
principles. Perhaps, Monica Crowley had the privilege and the rare
opportunity to sense those qualities in the man and understand his psyche,
the depth and substance of his soul. And as such, she felt that certain
loyalty and admiration would be a small price to pay and a token of
gratitude to offer and remember with dignity and respect. I pity those who
would dare to criticize Monica Crowley for being helpful and loyal to
President Nixon, for speaking about him with respect and affection. Monica
Crowley is a very bright woman with a striking intelligence, dignity and
loyalty. She knew the man as a friend, as a brilliant politician, as a
mentor and as a grand father. Perhaps, we missed or failed to see
President Nixon’s qualities and virtues. It is very possible. To me, it is
most certain! What
Monica Crowley knew about President Nixon, what Monica Crowley witnessed
about President Nixon remained inaccessible to many of us. Perhaps, this
inaccessibility to facts and to the veracity of the character of the man
should remind all those who dared to cast the first stone that,
entertaining the possibility of the goodness and decency of the man did
constitute the fabric of his inner being, qualities we did not recognize
and virtues we refuse to admit.