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EXCLUSIVE: The FBI is shutting down the J. Edgar Hoover building and moving its headquarters to a new location in Washington.
White House officials for some time have been drawing comparisons between the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, and the 40th, Ronald Reagan. A truer comparison would be President ...
Herbert Hoover Was Wrong Amity Shlaes reviews two new books about the former president and argues that the New Deal was simply a more intense, less constitutional version of Hoover’s policies ...
Senate Appropriations Committee approves an amendment that would only allow funding to be used to build a new FBI ...
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library director Thomas Schwartz discussed how the library explores the life of the 31st chief executive. Mr. Schwartz explained that the facility takes a broad look at ...
Reagan Rises - FBI Ditches Decades of Decay, Delivers Dem "Slap" with New HQ In a move that's raising eyebrows and political ...
The FBI is moving its D.C. headquarters to the former office of USAID, which was officially disbanded on July 1.
Shortly after Thanksgiving I had dinner in California with Ronald Reagan's best biographer, Lou Cannon. Like many historians these days, we discussed whether George W. Bush is, conceivably, the ...
Barack Obama has been compared to almost every American President of the last hundred years--favorably to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan; and unfavorably to Jimmy ...
Ronald Reagan's FDR side: What today's conservatives -- and liberals -- get wrong about the Gipper He knew politics' purpose is to govern, not preserve ideological purity. He pursued Goldwater ...
In an another attempt to cast himself as FDR, President Obama compared Republicans to President Herbert Hoover and criticized them for "giving tax cuts to people who don't need them." Obama told ...
English Prof. Ronald Rebholz, an outspoken opponent to Hoover during many of the controversies of the 1980s, agreed with his conservative counterpart. "The Reagan Library debate was much more ...