president, what it must have been like being that long-ago doctor who was told to provide a medical deferment for his young, wealthy patient to get him out of the draft, or paying women to not say something. president kennedy said the reason we read biographies or history is to answer the simple question, what was he like? michael cohen spent seven hours telling us what donald trump is like when he wants something done. what trump is like when he wants his relations with women erased. what trump is like when he talks about service to his country. what it's like to hear trump talk about african-americans living in poor neighborhoods. all of this reinforces the picture he gave us through all those months of claiming that barack obama could not possibly be who he is, a successful african-american with a quality education, a natural born american to boot. i've always believed that trump's original political sin was saying the first black president of the united states was somehow fraudulent. do we want a person described here as so vividly and