The federal government will close for President Reagan’s funeral. One last win for the Gipper.
Sometimes a thing is said so well that it can be used again— and now, after a long time, used yet again. Boswell, who could do many things with words, turned to some words by William Gerard Hamilton to end his Life of Johnson, the greatest biography in English: “He has made a chasm, which not only nothing can fill up, but which nothing has a tendency to fill up.—Johnson is dead.—Let us go to the next best:—there is nobody; no man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson.” We will substitute the name of Ronald Reagan. Like Boswell, we cannot compete with that.
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