PICKING A PRESIDENT based on his qualifications as a drinking buddy seems like a quintessentially contemporary act, typical of the false familiarity of 21st-century politics. Yet the linkage of booze ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Ted Widmer, former adviser to President Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, talked about his biography of President Martin Van Buren and ...
Analogies are by definition not exact; they are, however, illustrative. And so consider a presidential election during which An incumbent president, who had served as vice president under a popular if ...
With Election Day almost upon us, let’s look back at how some of the early settlers of this area were interested in politics, as can be seen in letters written by Edward Jones to relatives back in his ...
NEW YORK (AP) - Presidential elections are a foundation of American democracy dating back to George Washington. But presidential campaigns, as we know and endure them, came later. In a book published ...
Ronald G. Shafer is the author of The Carnival Campaign: How the Rollicking 1840 Campaign of Tippecanoe and Tyler Too Changed Presidential Elections Forever With our whole nation playing political ...
User-Created Clip by tgrane November 26, 2018 2018-11-25T20:46:06-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/515/20181125204708001_hd.jpgTed Widmer, former adviser to ...