David Brooks: If we had a real leader in the White House

This week I had a conversation that left a mark. It was with Mary Louise Kelly and E.J. Dionne on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” and it was about how past presidents had handled moments of national mourning — Lincoln after Gettysburg, Reagan after the Challenger explosion and Obama after the Sandy Hook school shootings.
(Dennis Cook | AP file photo)This Jan. 28, 1986 photo shows President Ronald Reagan in the Oval Office of the White House after a televised address to the