The Vietnam War should have been the United States' breaking point-a humiliating defeat that exposed the futility of projecting brute force in a world that had long learned to resist imperialism. But ...

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963 on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. He ...

His period in office is bookended by the political carnage of mid 1970s America, left by the earlier Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford presidencies, and the Hollywood style of Ronald Reagan from ... of ...

Ronald and Nancy Reagan were disappointed, but felt they had no choice. That's what White House Press Secretary Larry Speakes ...

In March 1965, a washed-up B-movie actor dialed a couple of young Republican operatives and invited them to lunch at his home ...

He also concocted a searing television ad in which a voice warned, as a hand reached for a voting lever, “When you vote Tuesday, remember, Governor Ronald Reagan couldn’t start a war.

Trump's Inauguration Day is expected to be the coldest swearing-in of a president since former President Ronald Reagan's second inauguration. President-elect Donald Trump in Phoenix, Arizona ...

Ronald Reagan started a tradition as he prepared to leave office after two terms as president: Write a note congratulating ...

The governor suspended the landmark environmental law to allow victims of wildfires to rebuild their destroyed properties ...

It was in late 1983 that Ronald Reagan made Mr Rumsfeld his envoy as the Iranians gained the upper hand in their war with Iraq. Terrified that the Iranian Islamic revolution would spread through ...

In the D.C. region, conversations often start with, “What do you do?” WTOP’s new series “Working Capital” looks at the jobs in the D.C. region and the people doing the work. With a tap ...