He oversaw supplies for the war effort under Lyndon B. Johnson and later had a brief, rocky tenure as president of The ...

Dick Cheney, who spent eight years as perhaps the most influential vice president in history and surely one of the most ...

Known as a "war hawk" who played a pivotal role in the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Cheney also served as defense secretary under ...

Dick Cheney was to many the embodiment of the unpopular and bloody Iraq war. But his late-in-life anti-Trumpism changed his ...

When Jean is remembered at all, she is often dismissed simply as a supporter of her husband. But she was Joe’s indispensable ...

Government shutdowns have now reached their second generation. This one is not only the longest but the one that seems to most undermine government itself.

Diane Ladd, a prolific actor nominated for multiple Oscars for portraying a spectrum of humanity that encompassed the tartly profane, the violently unstable and the quietly noble, has died at her home ...

In August 1974, President Richard Nixon resigned after the Supreme Court decided that tapes of presidential conversations were not protected by executive privilege. The tapes thus needed to be ...

Former President George W. Bush praised his vice president, Dick Cheney, as “a calm and steady presence in the White House ...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney died late Monday. He was 84. “His beloved wife of 61 years, Lynne, his daughters, Liz and ...