Political figures from across the aisle gathered Thursday in Washington, DC, for former Vice President Dick Cheney’s funeral — sending off a key figure of pre-MAGA Republican politics. The funeral, ...

Presidential history keeps a fixed guest list, and no matter how successful I get, I’m only allowed to invite certain names—Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Jackson, the Roosevelts, Kennedy, Reagan.

In the half century he navigated the heights of U.S. executive power, Dick Cheney went from being universally admired—as the competent public servant overseeing the lopsided victory in the First Gulf ...

It was amidst this tense national atmosphere that Democratic candidate Samuel J. Tilden and Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes vied for control of the White House. Complicating matters for Hayes ...

It was, on occasion, used by presidents to rehearse important speeches such as the State of the Union address; and at other times, as a spot for visitors to dump their hats, bags and coats. But for ...