Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

- R. W. Apple, Jr.

Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.

- R. W. Apple, Jr.

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

- R. W. Apple, Jr.

Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

- R. W. Apple, Jr.

The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.

- R. W. Apple, Jr.

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.

- R. W. Apple, Jr.