And therein lies President Donald Trump's inability to meet this American moment. Noonan referred, in an essay commemorating her old boss Ronald Reagan , to the human qualities behind successful leadership in the White House. Trump dodges the buck, insisting in the White House Rose Garden that, "I don't take responsibility at all" for coronavirus failures. George W. Bush answered Trump's blasts against Democrats on coronavirus this spring by asserting "we rise or fall together." After Monday's violent crackdown on protesters outside the White House, Bush declared that "those who set out to silence those voices do not understand the meaning of America."

Source: CNN June 07, 2020 12:00 UTC