William Greider on the Washington Post on Ronald Reagan:

My condolences to the staff and management of The Post. I had no idea you felt so deeply about Ronald Reagan. I was a reporter and editor at The Post during the launch of Reagan’s “revolution,” and we had a somewhat different take on his presidency then…A disturbing meanness lurked at the core of Reagan’s political agenda and was quite tangible at the time, though evidently forgotten now. We wrote tough stories about that and other contentious questions; I remain proud of the coverage. I would rank Reagan’s place in history right up there with Warren G. Harding’s. You want to put him in the company of FDR, maybe even Lincoln. Future historians will decide who’s right. Meanwhile, I read your funeral coverage as a lengthy, lugubrious correction.