the genius of Churchill was his union of affinities of the heart and of the mind, the total fusion of animal and spiritual energy” — but - William F. Buckley Jr.

For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.

But how reassuring it was for us, you remember, every now and then (“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”), to vibrate to the music of the very heartstrings of the Leader of the Free World who, to qualify convincingly as such, had after all to feel a total commitment to the Free World.

Mostly these conversations were had over the telephone, burdened by the conceptual difficulties of conflicting priorities, generals talking to engineers, political deputies to architects.