John Lennon was the defining songwriter of the 1960s, and he very nearly appeared at Woodstock Festival in 1969, but his ...

Though recent years have accustomed us to political ironies, the idea of a Washington-Peking détente under the presidency of Richard M. Nixon strains the imagination. Could anything be more bizarre ...

DI AN, Vietnam — The gates closed here at 12:30 p.m. and the Vietnamese women who work in the mess hall and the Vietnamese girls who clean up the offices and tents were trucked out of camp. At 12:30 ...

On the surface, Nixon's early months offered few clues to the foreign policy strides that would register in history or to the dark scheming that would destroy his presidency. He visited Europe for ...