Think of John Kennedy the way he was described by the sage of the Chicago, Carl Sandburg. Kennedy, Sandburg pronounced, 鈥渨alked with the American people in their great diversity.鈥漁r the way Norman Mailer saw him. Kennedy, Mailer wrote, fulfilled America鈥檚 need for a hero and for 鈥渁 man ...
The other day, at home, I hung a photograph of John F. Kennedy on one wall. It was taken in the spring of 1960 in Chesapeake, W. Va., which is not far from the state capital of Charleston. Chesapeake is an old industrial town, one or two streets wide, sitting in a narrow valley formed by the ...
Finally.I can now state that I am in full agreement with President Trump about something.He said he鈥檇 go to Washington and shake things up.He鈥檚 done that!The United States of America is experiencing daily political earthquakes, thanks to a president who can鈥檛 get out of his own way.Mr. ...
It was the ultimate head-scratcher.Donald Trump鈥檚 decision to jettison FBI Director James Comey launched a political firestorm that was nearly without precedent.Oh, there鈥檚 that 鈥淪aturday Night Massacre,鈥� that led to the downfall of Richard Nixon.Otherwise, historians have been unable ...
Early in 1945, officials in the Roosevelt administration were busy making plans for the world emerging from the ruins of World War II.The role of global leader was new to the United States. In the four years since Pearl Harbor, the country had made a remarkable journey: it went from being a ...
Those of us who thought we could sleep easy at night, knowing there won鈥檛 be another presidential election for the next three and a half years, were wrong.The 2020 presidential campaign, it seems, has already begun.Last week, President Trump fired the first salvo in what appears to be his bid ...