For his critics, however, the crimes of Watergate were only the most damaging expression of a temperament monumentally ill-suited to the highest office.
Out of those experiences, everything from pomp to humor to grief to majesty to the profoundly gruesome and monumentally spiritual worked its way into his tone.
But even once you get across one of these countries and you arrive at Afghanistan's borders, you're going to be met with Afghanistan's monumentally challenging terrain.