Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure..

In counterfactual history, nothing is certain..

What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about ….

Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan an….

It is very difficult for [people] to accept the idea that someone as inconsequential as Oswald could have killed someone as consequential as Kennedy..

One doesn't simply write about Lyndon Johnson. You get the Johnson treatment from beyond the grave - arm around you, nose to nose. I should admit tha….

As someone who has more than a passing acquaintance with most of the 20th century presidents, I have often thought that their accomplishments have li….

The consequence of the Bay of Pigs failure wasn't an acceptance of Castro and his control of Cuba but, rather, a renewed determination to bring him d….

... what's in a person's heart and soul will not likely be changed by the ability to command a helicopter to land on the South Lawn..

Presidents by six years have been there long enough for the media and the country to see their flaws..