Connecting.the.Dots

In the week before his 79th birthday tomorrow, Martin Luther King was in the news again. To make a point about the difference between rheto...

After the Tet offensive in early 1968, the Most Trusted Man in America announced the war in Vietnam could not be won. "If I've lost...

Now that the Decider is invoking Vietnam as the touchstone for Iraq, he may want to consider the fate of the man who presided over that war...

Before he became President and lost a war, Lyndon Johnson was the most effective Senate majority leader in history. Today’s Democrats, tryi...

Peggy Noonan, who used to write for George Bush’s father and now writes for the Wall Street Journal , has had enough. She wants to fire the...

"My mother," Lynda Bird Johnson once told me, "thinks well of everybody. She's even sure the Devil's been maligned. J...

In my lifetime of observing 12 American Presidents, none has been as politically incompetent--or to be more accurate, uninvolved in the proc...