Bob Rees and Clifton Jolley: One great president and one not

“Now, why was Lincoln so great that he overshadows all other national heroes? … his supremacy expresses itself altogether in his peculiar moral power and in the greatness of his character.” — Leo TolstoyIn “The Irony of American History,” Reinhold Niebuhr writes of the “absurd juxtapositions” of weakness and strength in our history. A recent example of that juxtaposition was the Fox News broadcast of an interview with Donald Trump that used as its