New York Times: “The portrait that emerges from months of interviews with dozens of current and former officials and others who have spent time with him lies somewhere between the partisan cartoon of an addled and easily manipulated fogy promoted by Republicans and the image spread by his staff of a president in aviator shades commanding the world stage and governing with vigor.” “It is one of a man who has slowed with age in ways that are more pronounced than just the graying hair common to most recent presidents during their time in office.