President John F. Kennedy introduced a new era of White House communications when he hosted the first live televised presidential press conference on this day in history, Jan. 25, 1961. "The fact of ...

From left to right, First Ladies Pat Nixon in 1973, Jacqueline Kennedy in 1961, Lady Bird Johnson in 1965, Laura Bush in 2001, Michelle Obama in 2013, Hillary Clinton in 1997 The famously stylish and ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Historian and author Michael Beschloss used examples of five historic inaugural addresses to discuss what makes an effective inaugural address. He ...

The Cuban disaster opened up one of the most wide-ranging exchanges between the national government and the press in many years. In effect, the discussion brought into the open in the United States a ...

First Lady buff Carl Sferrazza Anthony (Florence Harding; America's Most Influential First Ladies; etc.) turns his attention to the Kennedy family in its entirety in The Kennedy White House: Family ...

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