President Obama continues to enjoy high approval ratings.
Are great leaders born, or are they made through offbeat jobs? Let's have a look.
"Who controls the past controls the future."
Hold on to the audacity of hope but shun the arrogance of over-promising.
While pundits have compared President Obama to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, less attention has been paid to another, perhaps more apt parallel -- Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Until about Sept. 20, 2008, the day Henry Paulson asked Congress for a $700 billion blank check, most of us probably thought we had a decent layman's grasp of how the economy works and how it grows.
The Obama administration starts its work today with the highest of ambitions.
When presidents enter the White House, they have approximately 100 days to show what they are made of.
Next week, the day after our national holiday commemorating the 80th birthday of Dr. King, Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, the first African-American elected as president.
Use this resource as a brief history of presidential inaugurations and the traditions associated with them.
President Obama continues to enjoy high approval ratings.
Are great leaders born, or are they made through offbeat jobs? Let's have a look.
"Who controls the past controls the future."
Hold on to the audacity of hope but shun the arrogance of over-promising.
While pundits have compared President Obama to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, less attention has been paid to another, perhaps more apt parallel -- Lyndon Baines Johnson.
Until about Sept. 20, 2008, the day Henry Paulson asked Congress for a $700 billion blank check, most of us probably thought we had a decent layman's grasp of how the economy works and how it grows.
The Obama administration starts its work today with the highest of ambitions.
When presidents enter the White House, they have approximately 100 days to show what they are made of.
Next week, the day after our national holiday commemorating the 80th birthday of Dr. King, Barack Obama will be sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, the first African-American elected as president.
Use this resource as a brief history of presidential inaugurations and the traditions associated with them.
The Rev. Bernard LaFayette Jr. was resting at his Chicago, Illinois, home one autumn weekend in 1967 when the phone rang. The caller didn't identify himself, but LaFayette immediately recognized the baritone voice.
Forty-four years ago on November 2, 1964, I returned to Austin, Texas, with my parents and gave my last campaign speech at a rally in front of the Texas Capitol.
President-elect Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain will meet for the first time on Monday since the election.
Now that he is president-elect, Barack Obama must start thinking about what to do with Joe Biden.
Unlike in previous U.S. presidential elections of recent times, the battle for the White House in 2008 begins just a short drive west from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, across the Potomac River amid the commuter belt sprawl of northern Virginia.
When presidents enter the White House, they have approximately 100 days to show what they are made of.
Unlike in previous U.S. presidential elections of recent times, the battle for the White House in 2008 begins just a short drive west from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, across the Potomac River amid the commuter belt sprawl of northern Virginia.
Sen. John McCain likes to say he enjoys being the underdog. After all, this is the relentless candidate who somehow managed to capture his party's nomination after the political world left him for dead in the summer of 2007.
Wednesday night's vote on the financial bailout was good for future legislators who plan to run for president. For decades, the conventional wisdom has been that sitting senators make bad presidential candidates.
Historical Background: Presidential debates are a product of the television era. In 1960, Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy met in the first general election presidential debate, which was viewed by about 70 million people.
As the election approaches, we're learning more than we ever wanted to know about the presidential and vice presidential candidates. You even hear a lot about the potential first ladies -- I have somehow picked up the fact that Barack and Michelle Obama saw movie "Do the Right Thing" on their first date.
In 1993, Kevin Kline starred in a movie called "Dave," playing a look-alike who winds up impersonating the president. In the movie, the real president has a stroke and is kept on life support in a restricted area of the White House by a power-mad chief of staff, played by Frank Langella. Dave fills in.
You knew Barack Obama would deliver a magnificent speech in accepting the Democratic nomination for president. And he did.
When it comes to vice presidential picks, there have been some good ones and some not so good ones.
With Sen. John McCain touring Pennsylvania with his good friend and the state's popular former governor, Tom Ridge, the buzz is inevitably building about the Republican presidential candidate's choice for running mate.
The candidate wants to speak in front of Berlin's most dramatic prop. Romesh Ratnesar explains why Germans are hesitant
Why waiting to announce a running mate until the conventions might be a boon for Obama -- and a liability for McCain
There's no right way to choose a No. 2. McCain and Obama have to decide what matters most: heft, diversity, party unity, regional balance, buzz -- or a combination of all five
Terrorism, a slow economy and rising gas prices are issues that can keep American voters awake at night.
Thirty-five years ago today, Nixon was the first President to use the term "God bless America" in an official speech. A look at how the phrase has become de rigueur in American politics ever since.
The candidate told "forgotten" America that big government isn't the answer, but his message wasn't aimed only at them
David Shields was suffering from a bad back. And then came the attacks of September 11, 2001.
Five years after he green-lighted the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, President Bush faced strikingly low approval ratings as he reaffirmed his commitment to "accept no outcome but victory" in the war.
The virtually tied Texas Democratic primary has East Austin diners talking at Cisco's, where politicos have gathered over breakfast for generations.
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
You can't turn on a 24-hour news channel or your nightly news this week without seeing a feature on African-American women voters. It makes sense, being that the South Carolina Democratic primary is only one day away and African-American women will make up approximately one-third of the voters.
Democrats are positioned to solve our biggest problems. But first they'll need to be bold and creative
The founder and former CEO of Black Entertainment Television apologized Thursday to Sen. Barack Obama for what appeared to be veiled comments this week regarding the Democratic presidential hopeful's acknowledged drug use as a teenager.
The war of words about race between Clinton and Obama could cause the internal crack-up the party fears
Shedding her private dismay that she's not the most charismatic candidate, Clinton allowed her humor -- and anger -- to peek through
Republican presidential candidate Rep. Tom Tancredo is standing by his new television ad depicting a terrorist attack on an American mall, saying it portrays a real threat.
The nation's poverty rate dropped last year, the first significant decline since President Bush took office
The evangelist and counselor to Presidents was "incredibly supportive to me personally" during the Monica Lewinsky ordeal, the former First Lady tells TIME
Lady Bird Johnson, the former first lady who was married to President Lyndon B. Johnson, died Wednesday, according to a family spokeswoman. She was 94.
"Lady Bird" Johnson, who became first lady during one of the darkest days in United States history, died Thursday, family spokesman Tom Johnson said. She was 94.
There are times when reason carries the mind no further, when the mind is carried from the rational across the penumbra of the absurd. That is where the leadership of the U.S. Senate now resides.
Jack Valenti, the longtime head of the Motion Picture Association of America, died Thursday of complications from a stroke he suffered in March, his family announced. He was 85.
Jack Valenti, who served as president of the Motion Picture Association of America for nearly four decades, has suffered a stroke and has been taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, officials said.
Jack Valenti, who served as president of the Motion Picture Association of America for nearly four decades, has suffered a stroke and has been taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, officials said.
Some key dates surrounding the immigration issue:
(Time.com) -- An American businessman, traveling in India when the planes struck the towers, made his way back to the U.S. the following week as quickly as he could. That meant hopscotching across the Middle East, stopping in Athens, Greece, overnight to change planes.
Dear desperate Democrats,
The election that made him famous, he didn't win; Lyndon Johnson did, 49 percent to 42 percent, in New Hampshire's 1968 Democratic presidential primary. But Eugene McCarthy, who died last week at 89 in Washington, had scared the sitting President by articulating a principled opposition to the Vietnam War and corralling enough idealists to turn vexation into votes.
On Halloween night, crusty conservative Judge Laurence H. Silberman had a scary tale to tell fellow right-wingers gathered for dinner at Washington's University Club. He told in more detail than ever before how J. Edgar Hoover as FBI director "allowed -- even offered -- the Bureau to be used by presidents for nakedly political purposes." He called for the director's name to be removed from the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover Building in downtown Washington.
The first televised debate between presidential candidates, which took place 45 years ago Monday, not only had a major effect on the 1960 election, it changed America politics for good.
One was a wealthy Bostonian, handsome but sickly, a rakish war hero uncertain about his future.
A senior Republican senator who avoids the headlines and tries to help President Bush as much as possible two weeks ago was discussing with me the problems of seeking Social Security reform.
Supremely confident, steadfast in his agenda and seasoned from an eventful first term, President Bush's roughest days may still lie ahead.
Years ago, before I began writing a column, one of the nation's great columnists gave me some wise advice.
This election is very close. But that may be where the similarity between Kerry vs. Bush and Bush vs. Gore ends and the similarity to Johnson vs. Goldwater begins.
ON THE MORNING OF JAN. 14, 2003, MUTUAL FUND EXECUTIVES across the country turned to the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal and promptly choked on their morning coffee. They found a piece by...
Warning: Being U.S. president may be harmful to your health.
To those of us who eat, sleep and occasionally drink politics, nearly everything that happens in a presidential campaign is interesting, but very few things are really important.
If John Kerry is elected, he and wife Teresa--heiress to the Heinz ketchup fortune--would reportedly be the richest First Couple ever (one estimate pegs their combined wealth at more than $1 billio...
When public speaking scholars were asked to list the 100 greatest American speeches of the 20th century, only three nomination acceptance speeches made the cut: William Jennings Bryan accepting the 1900 Democratic nomination, Adlai Stevenson accepting the 1952 Democratic nomination, and Barry Goldwater accepting the 1964 Republican nomination.
A frequent thorn in George Bush's side, wooed by John Kerry as a potential running mate, now the Washington maverick speaks out
Hours before daybreak today, mourners started lining up at the Botanical Gardens on Capitol Hill. They'll remain there all day -- swelling in number from hundreds to thousands, and eventually to hundreds of thousands -- as they wait to pay respects to Ronald Reagan, whose casket will lie in state in the Capitol Rotunda starting this evening.
The story is told of how well and, yes, brilliantly, Lyndon B. Johnson understood the political importance of a politician's relationship with his parents.
Thousands of Americans are expected to pay their respects Tuesday to Ronald Reagan, the nation's 40th president, one day after his family emerged from seclusion to attend a brief prayer service.
The History Channel says it has assembled a panel of three renowned historians to examine a theory that President Lyndon B. Johnson was involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Presidential-election years tend to be up years for stocks--the S&P 500 rose in 11 of 13 such years since 1952, the Stock Trader's Almanac shows. Average gain: 9%. The year's last eight months tend...
The golf course has been the stage for some truly high-powered moments in business. Andrew Carnegie was on the links in 1901 when he was persuaded to sell his empire to J.P. Morgan, creating the ...
About six years ago, as a friend and I were on a cross-country drive, we stopped in New Salem, N.D., where we visited the town's singular claim to fame: Salem Sue, a 38-foot statue billed as the Wo...
About six years ago, as a friend and I were on a cross-country drive, we stopped in New Salem, N.D., where we visited the town's singular claim to fame: Salem Sue, a 38-foot statue billed as the World's Largest Holstein Cow. After gaping at the colossus, cracking a few udder jokes and taking the obligatory photos, we happily went on our way.
Dear Annie: I've had a long and successful career in quality assurance with high-tech companies, often acting as part of the design team for new products and learning one new technology after anoth...
Who do you trust: markets or governments? Regular readers will know that this columnist believes markets tend to produce the best results for the world's economic well-being. And in fact, recent ev...
One sometimes wonders if it is legal to criticize Marian Wright Edelman. Or is it mandatory to turn all treacly when contemplating her work as head of the Children's Defense Fund, long the sacredes...
Concerned citizens can now call Texas Senator Bob Krueger's 800 number with tips to cut inefficiency from federal programs. ''You'll have approximately a minute and a half to leave your message,'' ...
Lying is suddenly in the news, or at least the op-ed section. Back in October, Leslie H. Gelb of the New York Times showed up there bemoaning the loss of respect for the truth in Washington and con...
The big news about Clark Clifford these days concerns his deals with shady bankers. Question on the table: How could Mr. Washington Wise Man have let the money launderers get control of his bank ho...
So far, George Bush is getting consistently high marks for the job he has done as Commander-in-Chief. Says retired Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, now a management consultant: ''Bush's performance has been a...
In almost 30 years of working in Washington politics, I've not seen a time when the process has been shallower or when fewer people involved have been truly interested in the substance of national ...
-- Have we learned anything in the quarter century since the last great war on poverty was conceived? After all, that war was lost, and poverty in the U.S. is just as ugly and sprawling now as it w...
A fellow could get a touch of cognitive dissonance brooding over the material in Trends in Family Income: 1970-1986, the latest unsnappily titled publication of the Congressional Budget Office. The...
Sol M. Linowitz has had a life that many businessmen surely envy. Coming from a family in straitened circumstances, he was immensely successful as a lawyer and then a corporate executive. As an ins...
Easily the most fascinating social-policy news in the papers on June 25 was an item about affirmative action that the New York Times elected to bury on page A20, possibly because its editors did no...
| Most Viewed | Most Emailed | Top Searches |
Video
