US Presidency
1987

But at the end of the story, Nicholas Gage finds he can not extract the vengeance he promised himself. Mr. Gage writes it would have relieved the pain that had filled him for so many years, but it would also have broken the one bridge still connecting him to his mother, that part of him most like her. As he tells it: .. and her final cry was not a curse on her killers, but an invocation of what she'd died for, a declaration of love. These simple last words of Mr. Gage's mother, of Eleni, were: My children. How that cry echoes down through the centuries, a cry for all children of the world, a cry for peace, for a world of love and understanding.