Edgar Hoover as a bullying, righteous, and wary man, a natural-born populist authoritarian.

NEWYORKER: Public Enemies

Eastwood and the screenwriter Dustin Lance Black have re-created that period in the nineteen-twenties and thirties when a righteous young man with a stentorian style could electrify a nation.

NEWYORKER: The Man in Charge

Mr Obama later visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, which he said illustrated the depravity to which man could sink but also served as a reminder of the "righteous among nations who refused to be bystanders".

BBC: Obama tours symbolic sites in Israel and West Bank