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

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

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

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

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

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

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