This week, I found that reading the counterspin on our late former president rapidly nearly as wearying as reading the misty-eyed reminiscences. But oh, to be a fly on the wall in this meeting:

At his first meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985, Reagan had perplexed him by talking about how they might work together if there were an invasion of aliens from outer space. Reagan had got his idea from a 1951 science fiction movie in which an alien warns of earth's destruction if nuclear weapons are not abolished.