The Corn Belt is like John Bunyan’s idyllic Beulah-or a dark Gehenna.

In this era of world leadership, the metal detector is the altar and the minicam may be god.

We love the blather and boast, the charge and countercharge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.

When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices.. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.

The legions of reporters who cover politics don’t want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual...

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

The prime minister found something hopeful in the man’s eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for...

I simply liked him too much.

[Kennedy] did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.

They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray...

In just 20 years terrorism, communications, the jet plane and the increase of wealth and knowledge have forced, to varying degrees, world leaders into a haunted and secret peerage whose links with the people they...

[He is] television’s sultan of splutter.

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.