Cohen: In Trump's Washington, courage is a virtue

WASHINGTON – Every year the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation honours a public figure for taking a position of conscience in the face of personal or professional risk.
It is called The John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, evoking Kennedy’s celebrated chronicle of eight senators who embraced causes or positions that were against their interest. They chose principle over power, sometimes at their peril.
One of the award winners was Gerald Ford, who, in his first month as presiden