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

President Donald Trump insists this isn’t his war — that it belongs to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and former President Joe Biden. “This is not my war; it is theirs,” he has said, all from ...

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

"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 ...

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

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

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 ...

Wars burn presidential legacies into national memory — not for starting them, but for failing to act decisively when it ...

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

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