U.S. Presidents have varying backgrounds and political persuasions. Only one was unanimously elected. They can have little or lasting influence. These stories are about individuals with the power to make a difference at home and abroad.
Lincoln - a film directed by Steven Spielberg - is based, in part, on Team of Rivals (by Doris Kearns Goodwin).
Abraham Lincoln's son William died on February 20th, 1862 of typhus.
Lucy Burns friend of Alice Paul worked internationally to get women the right to vote.
Lyndon Baines Johnson was Vice President during the Kennedy Administration.
Mary Todd married Abraham Lincoln on the 4th of November, 1842 (in Springfield, Illinois).
Less than two months after her husband was killed, Mrs.
Charles Guiteau, the assassin of President Garfield, was put on trial for murder, commencing November 14, 1881.
During a November 17, 1973 televised news conference - during which a Watergate-embattled President Nixon took his case to the American people - the P...
On the 21st of February, 1972, President Richard Nixon arrived in China.
Aboard the USS Panay, on the 12th of December 1937, was a Universal News cameraman who had covered World War I and was in China to report on the Japan...
Changing his mind about the extent of U.
On the 4th of November, 1979, Iranian students stormed the U.
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