Tuesday, July 05, 2005

James Stockdale Has Died

Admiral James Stockdale, an American hero who endured confinement as a POW during the Vietnam War and a brilliant student and exemplar of the best in human nature, has died at age 81. Sadly, Stockdale consented to being Ross Perot's vice presidential nominee in 1992. I say sadly because, as a non-politician, his demeanor in the vice presidential debate that year caused him to be unfairly dismissed as a buffoon.

In his book, Good to Great, author Jim Collins recounts an afternoon he spent with Stockdale, a meeting I talked about in a Sunday morning message on hope a few months ago. You can read it here.

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