Robert Mueller\u2019s life traced the hard spine of American institutions:<\/p>\n
Marine officer in Vietnam, Bronze Star recipient, career prosecutor,<\/p>\n
then the man handed the FBI days before 9\/11 rewrote the nation\u2019s fears.<\/p>\n
He became the embodiment of stoic, buttoned\u2011down authority,<\/p>\n
the quiet figure in the background when everything was on fire.<\/p>\n
For years, both parties claimed him when convenient and<\/p>\n
cursed him when he refused to bend.<\/p>\n
His final act, the Russia investigation, left the country more divided than when it began.<\/p>\n
Some saw a cautious patriot boxed in by norms; others saw a man who flinched at the<\/p>\n
edge of accountability. With his death, there will be no fuller testimony, no second report,<\/p>\n
no late\u2011in\u2011life confessional interview. What he carried out of Washington\u2014doubts, secrets,<\/p>\n
and private judgments\u2014now stays with him. The institutions endure. The answers do not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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