Presidents

<p>What does history tell us about presidents who have tried to push the limits of the system?</p>

<p><span class="deck">No matter how busy he was, Theodore Roosevelt always found time for his children. The charming “picture” letters below, addressed to his thirteen-year-old son Archie from a Louisiana hunting camp, recall a man who for millions of Americans will always live on, forever vigorous, forever young.</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">Discreet helpers have worked on the speeches and papers of many Presidents, but a nation in a time of trial will respond best “to the Great Man himself, standing alone”</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Without doubt they were Washington, who walked carefully within the Constitution, and Lincoln, who stretched it as far as he dared</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">All that the Adamses saw they were schooled to put down and save. The result is a collection of historical records beyond price and without peer.</span> </p>

<p>To what extent did greatness inhere in the man, and to what degree was it a product of the situation?</p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A low comedy for high stakes:</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Governor Mario Cuomo of New York has used history as a guide and a solace for a good part of his life.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">They’ve all had things to say about their fellow chief executives. Once in a great while, one was even flattering.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Presidents have wanted it since before any of us was born.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><lead_in> AN OHIO UNDERTAKER’S LIFELONG</lead_in> obsession has left a mysterious outdoor gallery of American folk art.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Dick’s Last Trick</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck">What a skeptical biographer discovered about a very elusive subject</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">What would Martin Luther King Jr.—had he been alive today—thought of our latest president’s oratory?</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">For all his previous successes, President Herbert Hoover proved incapable of arresting the economic free fall of the Depression— or soothing the fears of a distressed nation.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A diminutive, persuasive Virginian hijacked the Constitutional Convention and forced the moderates to accept a national government with vastly expanded powers.</span></p>

<p>“It is recommended,” proclaimed Lincoln, that the people “celebrate the anniversary of the birthday of the Father of his Country."</p>

<p>The struggles and triumphs of our presidents have been central to shaping our nation, even though they operated under a Constitution that didn’t grant them unilateral power.</p>

<p>There was widespread fraud, especially in the swing state of Florida. We are talking, of course, about 1876.</p>

<p>The cause of Donald Trump’s poor behavior may be “a severe case of bad manners,” says the author.</p>

<p>Trump is the most transformative one-term President in 175 years, but historians will not be kind.</p>

<p>From Henry Clay to Barry Goldwater and Shirley Chisholm, our failed presidential contenders can still inspire us with their legacies.</p>

<p>Our leading politicians have spewed vitriol at each other since the nation’s founding.</p>

<p>Though it was one of his most controversial actions as president, Richard Nixon's covert bombing of Cambodia was excluded from his impeachment articles, helping to shape how the Vietnam War has been remembered ever since.</p>