Looking Back at Reagan

Griffin Internet Syndicate Classic — Reading Ronald Reagan’s newly published letters reminds me how much I’ve always liked him, even after I stopped admiring him as a president. He was always a modest, decent, good-humored man, with more common sense and a keener sense of proportion than most politicians. And he loved a good laugh.

But the very qualities that made him charming and convivial underscored the absurdity of entrusting him, or any man, with the awful power of the American presidenc...