Some observers compare FBI Director Kash Patel to J. Edgar Hoover. A better historical match is the politically motivated William J. Burns.
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A tour of the US was the culmination of an extraordinary peace campaign that gathered 390,296 signatures from women all over Wales. So why does it not appear in any history books?
Kamala Harris is on track to be one of the most influential vice presidents in history. This says more about the Senate than the amount of power the vice president actually wields.
US President Calvin Coolidge hasn’t gone down in history for his triumphs or failures as president during the 1920s – but his dry sense of humor carries on.
Only one president has done so – Franklin Delano Roosevelt – but others considered it, and even tried.
The vice president may be second in line for the most powerful job in the nation, but there isn’t necessarily a lot to do besides wait – unless the president wants another adviser.
This year is seeing a high number of absentee and mail-in ballots and voting in the period before Election Day – but early voting periods are not new to the 2020 election.
On March 12, 1933, President Roosevelt addressed the nation from the Oval Office during a time of great crisis. That ‘fireside chat’ proved broadcasting’s power as nothing before or since.
The self-references and superlatives used by President Trump made his State of the Union much more excessive linguistically than this speech’s tone typically is.
Calvin Coolidge, during one stretch of his presidency, was getting 15 hours of shut-eye each day, while William Howard Taft was known for nodding off during public events.
Trump’s promises to Native America have not always been the norm for US presidents. But Richard Nixon had a better record than most.
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Westminster College
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PhD Researcher in American History, University of Hull
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Professor of Communication and Journalism, University of Maine
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Senior Lecturer in International Politics, Aberystwyth University
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Professor of History, Iowa State University
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Professor of Journalism, Indiana University
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Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Vanderbilt University
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Professor of Political Science, University of Connecticut
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Teaching Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
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Professor of Welsh and Celtic Studies, Aberystwyth University
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Professor of History, Penn State