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Ken Khachigian, 81, of Orange County, California, was in the room with Reagan and Nixon. In the fall of 1967, Khachigian was a second-year law student at Columbia University when he wrote a letter to ...

Theodore Roosevelt felt antsy amid the 1904 campaign season. He was up for reelection, but the inexhaustible TR couldn't hit the trail. Custom dictated that a sitting president not activel ...

Stock markets around the world are surging because of two things: an expected interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve and an AI investment boom. But neither of these things necessarily signal actual ...

Donald Trump put things at the center of conservative politics. Since the 1950s, conservative intellectuals have championed individual liberty, limited government, and free markets as integr ...

Since the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers, many have designated September 11, 2001 as the true close of the 20th century. That event indeed changed many things in the United States a ...

Yesterday marked the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, with the signing of the peace treaty aboard the USS Missouri. On August 22 the last American flying ace of the war d ...

As the Blitz progressed (from 7 Spetember 1940-11 May 1941) the undulating sound of German bomber engines became a nightly, dreaded sound over London and other British cities. The Luftwaffe fleet sent ...

The living memory of World War II is passing away. In April, the oldest known survivor of Pearl Harbor died at 106 years old. A few weeks ago, a 102-year old veteran who stormed the bea ...

On December 7, 1941, Americans awoke to a quiet Sunday that would end in war. Sixty years later, on another unremarkable morning, I walked into my unit to sign in. By the time the second tower fell, t ...

At 9:02 a.m. on a terrifically hot late September Monday in San Diego, Pacific Southwest Airlines flight 182, banking steeply over the North Park neighborhood on final approach to Lindbergh Field, cli ...