Early in his 1932 campaign, feeling feisty, FDR picked a safe venue -- a commencement address at a relatively obscure university, Oglethorpe of Atlanta, and tried out the line: The country needs ...

Many focus on the ways Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton escalated federal police power. But in his new book, New Deal Law and Order: How the War on ...

Lyndon Johnson ... of Vietnam — Lyndon Johnson exploited his mastery of the legislative process to shepherd a collection of progressive programs, rivaling those of FDR’s New Deal, through ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson informed the nation last night that he has ordered a total halt of bombing of North Vietnam. The television announcement came after an hour-and-a-half White House ...

Although politically liberal, his expertise called upon by aides to Lyndon Johnson and other Democratic politicians, he was ...