The Emperor Who Would Not Resign

In my (long) post below, I talk about democracy and power and impeachment. The South Korean president was impeached and then left office, without much of a fuss. “That is something rare under the sun, and in history,” I write. “Nixon flying off to San Clemente is not normal. It’s wonderful, though.” On the subject of Nixon and San Clemente, I had a memory of the Central African Empire. Yes, the CAE, with its (self-crowned) emperor, Jean-Bédel Bokassa. I cover him and his family in my book Children of Monsters. The Bokassa family -- blood-curdling. In researching that chapter, I talked with
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