49 of 50 states, the coverage did not soften. It hardened.
The cartoons were sharper still. The Los Angeles Times’ Paul Conrad, a three-time Pulitzer winner and a genuine master, drew Reagan as a ragged addict shooting a missile into his own arm — the defense budget as narcotic. His harshest, in 1983, showed a Marine crouched under fire in Beirut above continue reading …
