Imagine that some member of Congress back in the 1990s had devoted himself or herself to toughening America against terrorism. He or she had introduced legislation to require airlines to harden their cockpit doors. After years of work, he or she at last prevailed and the new law went into effect sometime in early 2000. The 9/11 plot would have been thwarted without any American ever knowing that the plot had existed.
A look back at the memorials honoring those lost ten years ago on 9/11/01.
One day there will be no one alive who remembers.
Just as the 2004 presidential election was all about the concept of security, the same term will shape the campaigns of 2012.
With the 2012 campaign looming, President Obama begins a Midwest bus tour to focus on jobs. CNN's Athena Jones reports.
When you have flown through a heavy storm, the plane tossing one way and another, have you ever wondered whether there was really anyone in the cockpit? That's the feeling that many Americans have today -- as if we are lurching through an economic storm with no one in charge.
Two historic cottages in Georgia -- including one that served as a home to Franklin Roosevelt before he became president -- were destroyed by fire Tuesday morning, authorities said.
In the debate over raising the debt ceiling, Democrats and Republicans now agree that failure to act will be a disaster for the country. President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner made their anxiety clear in their dueling speeches to the nation Monday night.
CNN's Christine Romans explains the differences between the competing U.S. debt plans.
At key moments in his presidency, Barack Obama has struggled to win the support of the American people through the power of his oratory. The power of persuasion has traditionally been one of the most powerful weapons of the commander in chief.
The battle between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans over raising the debt ceiling has escalated into more than a fight over the budget and taxes. It has become a battle over who speaks for the American dream -- those who want the wealthy to pay a greater share of the nation's taxes or those who want to cut entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare.
The decisions of Republican senators John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina to support President Obama's sending of military aid to America's NATO allies in their air war against Libya's dictator Moammar Gadhafi are acts of political courage in a time of intense partisanship.
CNN's Dana Bash talks to Sen.John McCain about President Obama's strategy in Libya.
Moammar Gadhafi has been the leader of Libya for 42 years. In America, a tenure of that length would be equivalent to Richard Nixon still being president today rather than having left office in 1974.
Rebels report progress against government forces in Libya. CNN's David McKenzie reports.
There seems no end to bad economic news:
Should the media have paid so much attention to Sarah Palin's bus tour at the expense of declared Republican candidates?
1. 2.3 milligrams of B1: The recommendation that won a war
In one of the unexpected moments from the past few weeks, some defenders of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's attack on public unions have pointed to President Franklin Roosevelt.
Tensions rise in Wisconsin after the assembly passed a bill that would reduce workers' collective-bargaining rights.
Producer Iain Canning talks to CNN's Ali Velshi about the hit movie.
"The King's Speech" story knocked around in David Seidler's head for half a century before he finished writing the screenplay for the film, which is now nominated for a dozen Academy Awards.
Since the late 1940s, it has been an American custom for pollsters and publications to release a ranking of U.S. presidents.
During Donald Rumsfeld's first public appearance since the release of his new book, he praised many former elected officials and a surprising number of them were Democrats.
One Supreme Court justice threatened to punch out another during a legal debate. Another called a colleague "Der Fuehrer." And a third had joined a terrorist group.
For serious shoppers, the Friday after Thanksgiving is game day: Kickoff is early (sometimes at midnight), and those on the front line can score the best deals. For retailers, it signals the start of the holiday shopping season.
In the days before there was an organized baseball draft, there was a military draft.
On November 2, Americans will cast their votes in what will be the first official review of President Barack Obama's performance. Ahead of the crucial, mid-term vote, 10 of the world's top professors of leadership and management have assessed Obama against some of the core tenants of leadership -- vision, execution and results. While these leadership gurus have given Obama passing marks, he is far from an A student.
At the middle of his first presidential term, Barack Obama faces major electoral challenges, some of which have come to involve questions of religious identity and power.
With the real possibility of a Republican takeover of the House of Representatives, many Democrats are starting to argue for budget cuts.
CNN's Dan Lothian reports on the flack president's have faced for spending time outside of Washington on vacation.
Colorado Senate candidate Ken Buck talks about his political views with CNN's John King.
Democrats pledged Friday to not only keep Social Security in place, but use the historic program against Republicans ahead of the midterm election.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's grandson, Curtis Roosevelt, recently gave this speech about the presidents at an event in Washington, DC.
Despite the fact that just about everyone has an opinion on it, the jury's out on whether President Obama is a latter day Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
The president was young, a Harvard-educated intellectual admired for his charisma and skill with the written word.
The Smithsonian Institution weighs in on the Gulf spill and its long term effects. CNN's Kate Bolduan reports.
On Sunday, Sens. Chris Dodd and Richard Shelby said that they were close to a bipartisan compromise on financial regulation, which could be reached as early as this week.
Personal finance experts Ken and Daria Dolan explain the goals of the proposed financial industry reforms.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously proclaimed that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Looking at how the stock market has been behaving recently though, I think it's now fair to say that the only thing we have to fear is no fear itself.
"Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a president and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Michael Giacchino is "Up" for an Oscar and he also has "Lost" to keep him busy. CNN's Douglas Hyde reports.
Ed Asner has collected virtually every small-screen and lifetime achievement honor Hollywood has to offer.
Sixteen-fifty-one Pennsylvania Avenue isn't quite as famous as the address right across the street.
Tuesday's Democratic meltdown in Massachusetts not only wreaks havoc with the president's health care legislation; it jeopardizes the legacy of a leader who barely two months ago was summoning up links to the ghosts of great presidents past.
Regardless of the outcome of the health care reform effort, the difficult issue of cutting the federal budget deficit is likely to move front and center in 2010.
When the stock market broke the 10,000 point barrier a few weeks ago, many investors celebrated. Economists have started to talk about the end of the "Great Recession." But many Americans can't see what all the enthusiasm is about.
One of the themes of the Sunday talk shows this week -- ironically, as they nearly all featured President Obama -- was whether the president is "overexposed," particularly on health care.
Senior White House adviser David Axelrod has called the 100-day benchmark an "odd custom, the journalistic equivalent of the Hallmark holiday.'' But where did the notion of a president's "First 100 Days" originate?
CNN's Bill Schneider takes a look at where the notion of a President's First 100 Days originated.
Companies today are slashing jobs with a meat ax. Recession looms or is already here, depending on whom you ask. Some predict unemployment rising into double figures.
In the explosion of outrage over the AIG executive bonus scandal, each party has hurled charges at the other. Both parties are blaming each other for rejecting measures that would have limited executive bonuses.
The clash between Democrats and Republicans over the nation's economic crisis isn't just fueled by politics. It's also being driven, in part, by two competing views of history.
You often hear President Obama's stimulus plan referred to as the new New Deal. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that some critics of the stimulus aren't big fans of Franklin Roosevelt either. In fact, if you've been following the debate, you may have heard a surprising number of people put forth the notion that the New Deal actually prolonged the Great Depression.
The White House may be the official residence of the U.S. president, but it's only a temporary address. The former homes and libraries of presidents offer an inside look into the lives of the select few who served as the nation's leader.
Tomorrow marks the end of the third week of President Barack Obama's Hundred Days. After what can only be described as a euphoric inauguration, Obama has encountered some trouble.
Every now and then my natural talent for the evasion of unpleasant duties fails me. So it was that recently I found myself in a hotel chair, to my right some guy with dandruff and a Bluetooth in his ear, to my left his clone, listening to an analyst who works for a failing financial institution grill a variety of senior officers about the state of their businesses in this pesky economy of ours.
The scope and intensity of problems facing President Obama are similar only to those that Franklin D. Roosevelt faced in 1933.
When presidents enter the White House, they have approximately 100 days to show what they are made of.
While President-elect Barack Obama will certainly be making history when he takes the oath of office on January 20, he'll also be repeating it -- by placing his hand on the same Bible that Abraham Lincoln used during the inauguration of 1861.
The factory occupation by 200 workers at Republic Windows and Doors in Chicago, Illinois, recalls one of the most storied moments in American history, when thousands of Depression-era workers took over their own workplaces, seeking union recognition and better wages.
America loves its heroes and Barack Obama has already become one. In fact, he's become several.
Students here in Cambridge watched in horror in September 2005 as they saw lines of desperate people snaked round the convention center and the Superdome in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
The ten weeks from a President's election to his inauguration are arguably more crucial a period than any during his time in office. And one that history has shown can easily be mishandled
When presidents enter the White House, they have approximately 100 days to show what they are made of.
The next United States president won't have long to savor victory after Election Day.
March 30, 1981. Arguably the most powerful man in the world is shot.
To borrow the title of a classic modern novel, "Things Fall Apart." In just decades, Americans have gone from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal to George W. Bush's Rash Deal.
Key events for the week of September 19 - 25, 2008
In the words of Vice President John Nance Garner, the vice presidency "isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss."
Use this information to understand how polls are conducted.
Hillary Clinton and John McCain are arguing that Barack Obama is too green for the job. But history shows that when it comes to the presidency, experience doesn't guarantee success
Some historians credit Republican President Warren G. Harding with running the first campaign that made use of celebrity endorsement.
Currently, most of us reach our physical peak between twenty and thirty and begin a steady decline after that. By seventy, we have lost 40 percent of our maximum breathing capacity, muscle and bone mass have declined, body fat has increased, and sight and hearing have gotten worse. We may want to chase life and live longer, but not at the expense of function, both of mind and body.
In 1933, the U.S. Senate passed a bill mandating a 30-hour workweek. Alabama Senator Hugo Black, still a few years from the Supreme Court, was the sponsor.
At home and abroad, he was the locomotive president, the man who drew his flourishing nation into the future.
Awash as we are in the cranky appraisals of our war in Iraq and the congressional projects to end it summarily, we have every reason to conclude that for some Americans a real war is not nearly as amusing as one produced in Hollywood. A real war is a lot more difficult to script than a war headed for the silver screen. Inopportune events take place. Even uncovenanted happenings occur. During World War II more than 14,000 American POWs died in German and Japanese hands. President Franklin Roosevelt had not anticipated such brutal treatment. Other unanticipated enormities took place, for instance, the dithering in the hedgerows of France after the D-Day landings. Still, no congressional investigations were convened to distract our leaders from bringing the war to a diplomatically viable conclusion.
High oil prices. Inflation fears. Ballooning deficits. Guerrilla war. Bad news? Not for gold. The asset that shines in bad times has been on a tear recently, surpassing $500 an ounce, a level not s...
In the months after our invasion of Iraq -- our liberation of Iraq -- there was a neat little peace movement. It was composed of the likes of linguist Noam Chomsky, Ramsey Clark and various lesser patheticoes who all looked like they belonged on the streets of Berkeley, California, some with begging pots in their hands.
Ever been stumped by a question when you're on the road? The answer could now be in the palm of your hand.
Members of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee Friday assembled an array of witnesses to air concerns over what is publicly known about the Bush plan to change the Social Security System by including individual investment in the stock market.
Vice President Dick Cheney addressed Republican National Convention delegates Wednesday. This is a transcript of his remarks.
Sen. Zell Miller, of Georgia, was the keynote speaker Wednesday night at the Republican National Convention. Miller, a Democrat, has broken with his party and sided with President Bush on such issues his handling of the war against terror. Here is a transcript of his remarks:
U.S. presidents have guided us to wartime victory and plunged us into economic depression. All of their triumphs and failures can teach us a thing or two about our own careers.
Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, a former Democratic presidential candidate, gave a prime time speech at the Democratic National Convention on Thursday. This is a transcript of his remarks.
The following is a transcript of the eulogy given Friday by former President George H.W. Bush at Ronald Reagan's funeral at the National Cathedral in Washington:
In dedicating the World War II Memorial, President Bush addressed more than 140,000 people who had gathered on Washington's National Mall.
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