Seperti setianya Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim terhadap Mahakutty Mahathir.
Tetapi seperti nasib Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Devan Nair juga telah dianiayai oleh Lee Kuan Yew dengan memfitnah beliau seorang kaki perempuan dan pemabuk tegar.
Mr Lee asked Mr Nair to leave his power base as head of the trade union congress and move into the presidential palace. As Mr Nair puts it, "He kicked me upstairs."
Being president, he says now, was "the silliest job in the world. All you had to do was cut ribbons."
His frustration grew. But before he could speak out, Mr Nair found himself at the center of a rumour-mongering campaign that labelled him a drinker and womanizer.
He says he was neither, and he suspects that Mr Lee had government doctors slip him hallucinatory drugs to make him appear befuddled. "Lee Kuan Yew decided: This man is going to be a threat, so I'd better begin a total demolishment of his character.
He's very good at that."
Protokol matlamat menghalalkan cara adalah permainan musuh.
