Standing in front of Richard Nixon’s humble farmhouse birthplace at his presidential library in Yorba Linda, California 23 years ago this month, I delivered a eulogy for an American giant. As I look back at that day, I’m flooded with memories of President Nixon—including decades I spent at his side—and it strikes me that our leaders today may need a dose of Nixonian pragmatism in their decision-making.I predicted on that rain-soaked afternoon that the second half of the twentieth century would be known as the Age of Nixon.