column that denying the shah sanctuary was “inconsistent with a great nation’s self-respect.” Richard Nixon joined Operation Eagle, visiting the shah in Acapulco. John J. McCloy, the eighty-four-year-old dean of foreign policy mandarins, wrote the State Department’s second-highest official, Warren Christopher, that to bar him “could seriously impair our ability to obtain the support of those of whom we might well stand in need.” The president
