Tag: Presidents

Magazine - Washington Briefing

Another undeserved military honor for LBJ

Jamie McIntyre · May 10, 2019 7:00 am

Beltway Confidential

By protecting Trump, Republicans risk limiting their ability to hold future Democratic presidents accountable

Philip Klein · May 8, 2019 5:11 pm

President Trump is seen along the West Wing Colonnade at the White House in Washington, D.C.

2020 Democrats play to lose

Noemie Emery · May 7, 2019 4:00 am

Attorney General nominee William Barr looks speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, January 15, 2019. Barr will face questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee including his views on executive powers. Barr served as attorney general under George H.W. Bush.

Beltway Confidential

Barr’s theory would create a tyrannical presidency

Quin Hillyer · May 2, 2019 10:18 pm

Vice President Mike Pence salutes as he arrives for a tour aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman at the Naval Station Norfolk in Norfolk, Va., Tuesday, April 30, 2019.

National Security

Sailors aboard USS Harry S. Truman ordered to ‘clap like we’re at a strip club’ for Pence

Diana Stancy Correll · May 2, 2019 11:41 am

Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., arrives for the House Democrats leadership elections where he expect to become the House majority whip, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018.

Clyburn: Biden ‘probably the leader’ in South Carolina among 2020 Democrats

Anna Giaritelli · April 28, 2019 2:23 pm

Luci Baines Johnson, left, and her sister, Lynda Johnson Robb, smash champagne bottles to christen the Lyndon B. Johnson, the third Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer, built at Bath Iron Works, Saturday, April 27, 2019, in Bath, Maine. Johnson and Robb and the daughters of the former president.

National Security

LBJ’s daughters christen ‘most ironic ship’ criticized as wasteful spending

Steven Nelson · April 27, 2019 7:15 pm

Here’s how old Joe Biden’s Democratic rivals were when he was first elected to the Senate

Philip Klein · April 26, 2019 9:36 pm

Magazine - Personal Finance

Then and Now: In God we trust

Jay Caruso · April 26, 2019 4:00 am

A coup of sorts threatened to snatch the White House away from Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) in the penultimate episode of "Veep's" fifth season. (Image courtesy screenshot)

Beltway Confidential

America’s 7 most iconic TV presidents, ranked

Madeline Fry Schultz · April 25, 2019 6:43 pm

President Trump said Monday that "interesting things are happening," following his phone call with Saudi King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud Salman. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The most successful presidents keep to themselves, not to Twitter

Michael Barone · April 25, 2019 4:05 am

Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Donald Trump.

Trump’s lies and insults pale next to Jackson’s, Roosevelt’s, Truman’s

Richard Rubino · April 11, 2019 4:00 am