extraordinary dignity and grace and we could all see it and can only aspire to it. tucker: no bitterness, pure humanity. his instincts were so relentlessly decent. i don t think i knew anyone who disliked him. no. i know people who disagreed with him, and they were sometimes annoyed or offended by, you know, the sharpness with which he wrote, people who were not as sympathetic to israel as charles unfailingly was. but on a personal level, if you ever saw him or watched him, you couldn t you couldn t dislike him. you couldn t help but admire him, even if you disagreed with him. you recognized the power of his thought, the thoroughness of his research, and the quality of his writing, and the combination was strong. if you know him personally, that wonderful quality he had, that kindness, gentleness, grace. if you know what he had been through, you saw the way he handled all that, you admired
he thought things through. and he conducted himself with extraordinary dignity and grace and we could all see it and can only aspire to it. tucker: no bitterness, pure humanity. his instincts were so relentlessly decent. i don t think i knew anyone who disliked him. no. i know people who disagreed with him, and they were sometimes annoyed or offended by, you know, the sharpness with which he wrote, people who were not as sympathetic to israel as charles unfailingly was. but on a personal level, if you ever saw him or watched him, you couldn t you couldn t dislike him. you couldn t help but admire him, even if you disagreed with him, you recognize the power in us of his thought, the thoroughness of his research, and the quality of his writing, and the combination was strong. if you know him personally, that wonderful quality he had, that kindness, gentleness, grace. if you know what he had been