I definitely believe we missed his best years, but it's hard to imagine how much more of an icon he could've become. I mean, the effect this Man had despite the fact that he has virtually been out of the public limelight for the last 20 or 30 years is incredible.
This is gonna sound crazy , but he could've wiped the HW Division out, become even bigger and who knows , maybe even the first Black President!
Or, he could've imploded, and it could've all gone tits up, got caught up in some Career damaging scandal.
Mind you, we also had an era where the good got shot or killed by the evil. Ronald Reagan, Pope John Paul II , John Lennon.
We'll never know, but what we do know is that was and always would have been a very,very, special man.