“When I try to tell people what Ronald Reagan was like,” says Peggy Noonan, former White House speechwriter, “I tell them the bathroom story.” A few days after President Reagan ... St. Louis, and insisted on changing it. “You won’t make your connection,” he insisted. “I’m going to put you on the later flight out of St. Louis.” Ashcroft looked at his watch, then glanced at his ticket. “If we leave when you say we’re going to leave, I’ll make the connection,” he argued, “and I want ...
