I enjoyed in every way my 12 years of playing Archie and I wasn't personally sad about finishing a long job.
Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.
When the United States was founded the very idea of a nation premised on democratic principles of freedom and tolerance was viewed by the vast majority of the world as an experiment doomed to fail. Dictatorships monarchies and theocracies had for many centuries ruled the world.