The crosswinds of fate sometimes whip up to such an intensity that politics are upended and the direction of the country reversed in an instant. The end of March and the beginning of April 1968 was ...

As the incumbent president, Joseph R. Biden Jr. is the presumed Democratic nominee for the 2024 election. He even won Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary without being on the ballot or campaigning. And ...

WASHINGTON — Some voters probably still hope Joe Biden or Donald Trump - or both - will do what Lyndon Baines Johnson did nearly 56 years ago: Pull out of the presidential race under public pressure.

Mr. Vice President, Mr. Cormier, Mr. Kilpatrick, ladies and gentlemen: A very funny thing happened to me tonight when I was on my way out of the White House -- [Laughter] -- I mean tonight. When I ...

President Joe Biden is the first president in more than a generation to decide not to seek a second term. But Biden’s situation is unique in American politics. He had planned to run and won nearly ...

Volunteers distribute yard signs promoting the "Write In Biden" effort at a New Hampshire Democratic Party fundraiser, Dec. 1, 2023. President Joe Biden is skipping the New Hampshire presidential ...

Anti-war protesters decry a president who is running for reelection: Are we talking Joe Biden in 2024 or Lyndon B. Johnson in 1968? After all, just as demonstrators this spring at campuses across the ...

When Lyndon B. Johnson wanted to take his hat out of the ring in 1968, he said this during a nationally televised address: ...