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I didn’t think I’d be writing this week about Nathan Tabor.

Has there ever been a better movie president than Bill Pullman? Keep in mind that Martin Sheen’s Josiah Bartlett was on the small screen. To my mind, the boyish yet mature Pullman wins thanks to his performance as boyish yet mature President Thomas J. Whitmore in the 1996 film “Independence Day,” which, incidentally, was released on July 3 in order to take advantage of its connection to our national holiday. In the sci-fi blockbuster, a space-alien invasion is stymied by the thin...