President M. Nixon is not generally admired as a fountain of profundity.  But attention should be paid by sore political losers to this pithy remark: "You've got to learn to survive a defeat.  That's when you develop character."  Among those who would profit from heeding the remark are the daily protesters of the election of Donald Trump as president of the U.S., Green Party candidate Jill Stein, The New York Times, and now Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, president of Turkey. On November 24, 2016, the Parliament of the European Union in Strasbourg voted by 471 to 37 and 107 abstentions to halt talks concerning Turkey's accession to membership of the EU.  President Erdoğan, both pre-emptively and after the decision of the E.P., declared that the vote had no value at all.  At the meeting in Istanbul on November 23, 2016 of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, he first declared that "this vote has no value at all, no matter...(Read Full Article)