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His final act, the Russia investigation, left the country more divided than when it began. Some saw a cautious patriot boxed in by norms; others saw a man who flinched at the edge of accountability. With his death, there will be no fuller testimony, no second report, no late‑in‑life confessional interview. What he carried out of Washington—doubts, secrets, and private judgments—now stays with him. The institutions endure. The answers do not.
