This, by the way, is Morris thinks of Reagan (from an interview in Newsweek):
What do you really think of Ronald Reagan?
I have gradually, over the course of many years, come to the conclusion that he was a great president. More interesting to me than greatness, however, is that he was throughout his life such a strange combination of innocence and wisdom, charm and hard force, gregariousness and aloofness, egocentricity without conceit, aggression without cruelty, imaginativeness and cultural ignorance, sentimentality and emotional coolness. I could go on for a quarter of an hour and not exhaust his contrary opposites. He is also — to finish with a simple statement — the bravest and most incorrupt figure I've ever studied.
Newsweek, October 4, 1999 |
