Once upon a time, many years ago, mayors of Pittsburgh would annually leave the confines of the Smokey/Steel City for the hinterlands of Western Pennsylvania.These campaign-style trips were apparently meant to convey goodwill, leading to an improved understanding between the city and places ...
The stonecutters at Mount Rushmore have been told to hold off on crafting that Trump head.Impeached, one-term presidents who fell short in two, consecutive, popular votes don鈥檛 make the Mount Rushmore cut.Meanwhile, the man who would be king, except in kingdoms controlled by voters and votes, ...
Want a ray of hope in this bleak political landscape?Back in the early 1960s, John F. Kennedy went from being reviled, because of his religion, to being the president of the United States with approval ratings in the stratosphere.Figuratively, it happened in a twinkling of the eye.Kennedy, who ...
In the early days of 1999, Sen. Joseph Biden was walking through the basement of the Senate鈥檚 Richard Russell Office Building when he was approached by a reporter.Earlier in the day, Republican Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania had ventured an opinion on the impeachment trial of President Bill ...
America has just witnessed a six-year presidential campaign, filtered through a lackluster presidency, that ended with a thud.That鈥檚 the Donald Trump presidency in a nutshell.He traveled the country, standing on makeshift stages, ad-libbing punchlines while making vague references to thin ...
Following the presidential election of 1948, President Harry Truman took the train back to Washington, D.C., from his home in Independence, Mo. En route he stopped in St. Louis, where someone handed him a copy of the Chicago Tribune with its notoriously incorrect headline, 鈥淒ewey Defeats ...