Reagan's emotional intelligence, his ability to suss out people's longings and to channel them for political purposes, was better than just about any human being that ever lived.

Rick Perlstein
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  3. Presidents are also always storytellers, purveyors of useful national mythologies.

  4. Politics is motion." John Sears

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