"What a liar" — famously muttered into an open mike.

It's the one thing I've always remembered about Daniel K. Inouye. Dead now, at age 88. Inouye was a World War II hero and Medal of ...

4 reasons why Republicans don't need to feel that bad.

Chris Cillizza link-grabbingly scrounges up some hope for the seemingly hopeless: 1. The party’s superstars are coming of age.... Sen. Marco...

"Where miracles are made. Not in Washington, D.C."

"Friends, Romans, countrymen..."

This amused me. Cowboy style. I ran across it because I was looking for the text to the famous Mark Antony speech, which I'd been forc...

"Katzenbach finally interrupted and said he knew about the Constitution, but a man could be a damn fool and be constitutional."

From David Halberstam's "The Best and the Brightest" (p. 345), reporting what the Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach said w...

"Football spiked: Obama to address nation on Bin Laden anniversary live from Afghanistan."

"The official reason for the trip is to sign the new strategic partnership agreement with Karzai, but of course that doesn’t require hi...

What do Bob Dylan, Toni Morrison, John Glenn, and Madeleine Albright have in common?

Obama is giving them all a medal — the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Speaking for freedom, Bob's got an old song called "I Shall B...

The Jackie Tapes: LBJ was behind the JFK assassination.

She spoke with historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. shortly after the assassination on tape recordings that Caroline Kennedy has decided to rel...

"Being rich changes surprisingly little... You still have to have an absorbing interest in life, something to do to make you feel alive."

Said G.D. Spradlin , who "made a fortune, retired in 1960 and spent a year and a half sailing in the Bahamas with his family," bef...

"Damn, Obama looks like James Bond in this picture."

Says a commenter at the White House Flickr site. Is that what you see? Keep in mind that this is a picture the WH selected and had to have t...

5 old presidential campaign ads.

For LBJ, Ford, Ike, JFK, and Dukakis. I love the variation in style, which, in each case, belongs so clearly to its decade. I don't agre...

"Historians are generally ambivalent over whether hot-tempered leaders have fared any worse than the placid."

Writes WaPo's Michael Leahy in a long article about McCain's reputed hotheadedness: Harry S. Truman once threatened bodily harm in ...

"And another thing - the crotch, down where your nuts hang - is always a little too tight..."

"... so when you make them up, give me an inch that I can let out there, uh because they cut me, it's just like riding a wire fence...

At the LBJ Library.

At the LBJ Library , the floors of archives are on beautiful, grand display: And there are three floors of exhibits, which pull you through ...

Why Bush (the Elder) cried.

Peggy Noonan says: [N]o one who knows George H.W. Bush thinks that moment was only about Jeb.... Surely Mr. Bush knew--surely he was first o...

Where are all the student war protests?

Andrew Rosenthal asks: Student protesters helped drive Lyndon Johnson — in so many ways a powerful, progressive president — out of office be...

Champion of the beleaguered incumbent.

Ah! I see our resident public sociologist Jeremy Freese has devised a theory of me --the political me at least. Let's check this out: to...

Understanding politics with brain blood flow patterns. Maybe some people will be critical of the use of MRI technology to test political ad...

"The imaginative flowering of the primitive urge." Here 's an interview with Robbins about his play, and it does confirm--see...