I don't agree at all with your reading either of his character, or the events of his tenure.
As pertains to this matter - I'll go with his version of the events and their significance.
You can go along with whatever you like.
As pertains to this matter - I'll go with his version of the events and their significance.
You can go along with whatever you like.
It's not even his version. You've just cherry-picked a single sentence, attributed significance over all else, and ignore everything else he says, and what other contemporary participants have said, and the historic context of it all.
It's whatever you want it to be then, I suppose.
Look, I think we're done here. Read and cherry pick whatever you want, and go to town with it - as suits your fancy.