Dan Coats: An image of America's retreat from the world stage

Throughout history, a single picture has revealed the world’s momentary political reality. Before photography, artistic representations of Caesar entering Rome, Napoleon crossing the Alps and Gen. Washington crossing the Delaware defined periods of history.

With photography, we are able to see images that define America’s role in the pivotal moments of existential threats to our values, faiths and way of life. Moments like President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill sitting beside Josef Stalin in Tehran and later at Yalta, President Kennedy at the City Hall in Berlin and President Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate.

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