April 7, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson delivered his first major speech on the war in Vietnam. Opposition to the war had been growing as a result of Operation Rolling Thunder, an expanded U.S ...

In March 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson was nearly 40 minutes into a speech on the Vietnam War when he closed with a ...

Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson." I agree ... Press text of United Nations Representative Jeane J. Kirkpatrick's speech as delivered Aug. 20 to the Republican National Convention, in Dallas.) ...

The death of James Earl Jones has forced me to consider the end of an era. Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier and Jones were ...

A number of influential religious groups have filed a lawsuit against the IRS over the Johnson Amendment, which bans ...

"Is This America?" sings of Hamer’s life and work, with performances later this month at the Strand Theatre in Dorchester ...

Skyhorse Publishing, which is releasing Melania Trump's memoir on Oct. 8, has a catalog of controversial authors and books in ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin spoke at the fall Presidential Speaker Series dinner on ...

The term “coattail” has been around since the 1600s, but it wasn’t until the mid-20th century that it was used in the political context to describe a president’s ability to ...

In the heat of the Civil Rights Movement, Jones didn’t give rousing speeches or lead marches. Instead, he doubled down on his ...