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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 ...

President's Day is often treated as a generic celebration of presidents - or, more commonly, as a convenient sales event marking the approach of spring. The modern observance, falling betw ...

Many opponents of so-called Bolivarian socialism welcomed the capture and arrest of Nicholas Maduro. Yet, while rejoicing in the fall of a tyrant, one cannot help but share an important observation: t ...

Americans love to be outraged. Our identity is endowed with a consistent distrust, if not vitriolic animosity, towards both government and the conditions detrimental to everyday life which the governm ...

Ninety years ago this month, German troops marched into the demilitarized Rhineland area in violation of the Versailles Treaty of 1919. Some historians and international relations experts, like ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the early morning hours of April 17, 1961, the 2506 Brigade entered the Bay of Pigs on the southern, swampy, mosquito-infested coast of Las Villas province, and la batalla de Girón  ...

In the early morning hours of April 17, 1961, the 2506 Brigade entered the Bay of Pigs on the southern, swampy, mosquito-infested coast of Las Villas province, and la batalla de Girón  ...

When politicians invoke "America First" today, they echo arguments first championed by Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., U.S. ambassador to Britain in 1940. Kennedy believed aiding allies would weake ...