Even a broken clock is right twice a day, or so they say. How to understand that aphorism when applied to a presidency mired ...

Buckley’s star only rose higher in the years after Kennedy’s assasination and Goldwater’s landslide loss to Lyndon Baines Johnson. In 1965, he ran for mayor of New York, nominated by a new ...

The political and financial risks of the 1970s are back in the White House, Edward Price writes in a guest commentary.

Throughout this period, Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard “to enforce the expansion of civil rights and to ensure public order ...

On June 22, 1973, U.S. President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev signed a pledge to try to avoid nuclear war.

It's true. We’ve only had Father’s Day officially since 1972, when the tree-hugging, pro-women, peace-loving, gender equality-seeking Richard Nixon established it.

President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery.

March 13, 1965: President Lyndon B. Johnson, center, and Alabama Gov. George Wallace (second left) are surrounded by reporters in the White House after meeting to discuss events in Selma, Ala.

President Lyndon B. Johnson invoked that authority in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery. That incident is now in the spotlight ...

So to protect demonstrators against violence, President Lyndon B. Johnson did something presidents rarely do: He invoked his legal authority to activate and deploy the National Guard without the ...