This Presidents’ Day, we look back on how the news about the four-term POTUS — who'd been in office as a generation of Americans came of age and then went off to war — still hit hard a dozen years later.
As the Reagan era began to grind on, photographer Sylvia Plachy prowled the subways, and music critic Tom Smucker admitted, “I like Christmas music. I like the schlock and I like the religion. I like sentimental innocence and I like trancing out on the same standards sung and resung.”
With a PBS special on the Wall Street battle coming up, we revisit a “first draft of history” piece about cultural fractures that still divide us today.
