And a big part of that response is getting over the idea that nurturing institutional reputation, which is part of the president's job, requires lying, repression of facts, denial of the bad conduct that's part of the human condition.
The roots of this repression lie not in the leaders' overweening confidence but in their nervousness.
In the subsequent repression by the army lay the emotional origins of the Popular Front against "fascism"—a re-creation of the Azaña coalition of Left Republicans and Socialists.
For many years as a young adult I saw it as grey, drab, boring - post-war exhaustion eager to construct a normality behind which lay all manner of hypocrisy and repression.
But in the hands of Isserman and Kazin, it becomes a means to an end for radicals who "believed that the path to defeating repression, both societal and personal, lay in the rapid spread of a sensual, creative lifestyle".
The relationship with General Contreras was viewed as "necessary to accomplish the C.I.A.'s mission, in spite of concerns that this relationship might lay the C.I.A. open to charges of aiding internal political repression," the report said.
"In this ground lay Soviet citizens, burnt in the fire of the Stalinist repression of the 1930s; Polish officers, shot on secret orders; soldiers of the Red Army, executed by the Nazis".
As Healy puts it, "Where once lay people had gone to psychiatrists expecting to hear about sexual repression, they now came knowing that something might be wrong with their amines or with some brain chemical".
The lesson from the death of violent anarchism is that the solution lies beyond blanket violent repression of them or its polar opposite, capitulation to their demands.
Fortunately a new study released Monday by my colleagues at the Legatum Institute refutes the notion that the road to worldly riches lies in autocracy and repression.
