After every State of the Union Address, whichever political party doesn't have control of the White House chooses a leader to deliver a response speech. Usually this is a person who is going to be...

Brownstein, a prominent political journalist and author, theorized that Clinton's speech was part of a strategy to minimize the difference between the two parties. In a Los Angeles Times story abou...

Ever play that card game "BS?" Well, the 1996 election was basically a huge game of "BS" between Bill Clinton and the Republican Party. Clinton promised smaller government, and the Republicans resp...

Speechwriter Michael Waldman said that Bill Clinton's 1996 State of the Union might have killed off liberalism. But if there was one person who made "big government" a dirty word (yes, we know that...

When Johnson became president after the Kennedy assassination, he launched a series of domestic programs designed to eliminate poverty and racial injustice. Historians have dubbed Johnson's domesti...

Roosevelt was the most popular and important Democratic president…until Clinton came along. He was elected a whopping four times, drawing comparisons to Roman dictator Julius Caesar from his crit...