If Roosevelt didn't have World War II, he never would have had a third term.
Robert Dallek
My feeling is that it's a misreading of history to say that, as the Reagan supporters do, that Reagan won the Cold War.
The Cold War is over. The kind of authority that the presidents asserted during the Cold War has now been diminished.
As for Vietnam, what matters is that Kennedy successfully resisted pressure to send anything more than military advisers, a stance that was a likely... →
A national government using New Deal programs and the massive defense spending beginning with World War II and continuing through the Cold War was... →
Despite an unqualified understanding that U.S. national security was inextricably bound up with Britain's survival, F.D.R. knew that his... →
Dwight Eisenhower, the Republican nominee in 1952, made a strong public commitment to ending the war in Korea, where fighting had reached a stalemate.
To be sure, Kennedy did not discount the importance of words in rallying the nation to meet its foreign and domestic challenges. Winston... →
What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an... →
No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for... →
Roger Daltrey