The Art of the Comeback

Can President Donald J. Trump reset his presidency? History shows us it can be done and it has as much to do with style as it does substance.

“MR. PRESIDENT, WE ARE READY TO EAT CROW WHENEVER YOU WANT TO SERVE IT,” read a large banner hanging on the Washington Post Building. It was 1948, and Harry S. Truman had achieved the seemingly impossible. The incu…