And in Libya, the death of Moammar Qadhafi showed that our role in protecting the Libyan people, and helping them break free from a tyrant, was the right thing to do.
Vice President John Tyler was then at his home in Williamsburg, Virginia. Secretary of State Webster sent his son Fletcher on horseback to tell Tyler of the president's death.
When I heard of Al' s death, I reacted with the same disdain the world shows for one who ends his life with nothing material to show for it. What a complete failure! I thought. What a totally wasted life!
" Think of what it is they are cheering, " he said. " My message today was a message of death for our young men. How strange it seems they would cheer that" .