We’re the most vulnerable nation on earth. This country is a hostage!”—respectable Republicans would stand up and scream like he was Ringo Starr and this was 1964. Their greatest delirium followed his signature line demanding that Japan lower its trade barriers or “be prepared to sit on the dock in Yokohama in your Hondas and your Toyotas.” (In Florida he added the line “eating your own orange.”) They went particularly nuts, one day in Florida, when he stared down a Japanese TV crew while delivering the line. At a cattle show in Chicago, an awed observer
