The secretary of defense who served John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson saw his reputation plummet along with America’s prospects in Vietnam.

Learn about the U.S. Presidential Libraries, operated by NARA, which document the legacies of American presidents and serve ...

In 2005, the eye of Hurricane Rita made landfall at the Texas-Louisiana border. The Category 3 storm was responsible for more ...

In “McNamara at War,” the brothers William and Philip Taubman probe the mind of a Harvard Business School technocrat who ...

President Trump’s latest anti-broadcast media actions are portrayed in legacy media as being unprecedented. While they ...

"The timing is right. I feel it's my calling, and so I applied in advance, before the deadline, and now I'm just using this ...

President Dwight Eisenhower spoke at the United Nations about the destructive nature of the atomic bomb and urged the peaceful use of atomic energy. This is a portion of the speech known as "Atoms for ...

"Replacing Biden's portrait with a picture of a pen? He gave decades of his life to public service," said one critic.

Many presidents and vice presidents fall out by the end of their tenures, a fraught dynamic that goes back to the early days ...

On the eve of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Trump administration is rewriting ...

Past presidents understood that National Guard deployment should only be a measure of last resort. A deployment can cost as ...