Ruminating with GARRY WILLS
On the Texas abortion case, why Ike was the best postwar president, and how his late wife made him smarter
I first met Garry Wills at one of the political conventions of the 1990s. I had long admired him from afar as one of America’s most brilliant public intellectuals and our (few) personal encounters solidified the impression.
Now 87, Garry grew up with a Protestant father and Catholic mother. His father was a philanderer and his mother raised him and his s…