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The Wrong Man
JFKâs McNamara mistake. Nineteen sixty was coming to a close. Nikita Khrushchev was boasting that the Soviet Union was cranking out rockets...
Newsweek, 07/20/09 by Michael Beschloss · More from publication -
Mt. Vernon, Va.: Washington Slept Here
Shortly before George Washington retired as president in 1797, two of his cherished house slaves--Martha's helper Oney Judge and their chef,...
Newsweek, 09/03/07 by Michael Beschloss · More from publication -
A Lady by Any Standard
During the three decades after Lyndon Johnson's death--a period almost as long as their marriage--Lady Bird followed her own heart. She established...
Newsweek, 07/23/07 by Michael Beschloss · More from publication -
A Case of Courage
As the Wednesday afternoon sun slanted through the tall windows of the Oval Office, Gen. George Marshall, Harry Truman's secretary of State and the...
Newsweek, 05/14/07 by Michael Beschloss · More from publication -
A President's Ultimate Test
When friends heard I was writing a book on presidential courage, some of them turned snarky: "Was there ever such a thing?" they would ask. They...
Newsweek, 05/14/07 by Michael Beschloss · More from publication -
Happy Birthday, Abe
A hundred and ninety-eight years after Abraham Lincoln's birth, the White House's Lincoln Bedroom finally looks like a room the great man would...
Newsweek, 02/12/07 by Michael Beschloss · More from publication -
Ford's Long Shadow
He was a larger figure than you might have thought. Many familiar personalities--politicians, movie stars, newscasters--are smaller in fact than...
Newsweek, 01/08/07 by Michael Beschloss · More from publication -
Ideas: History, Pivoting On the Unpredictable
It was the summer of 1937, and Franklin Roosevelt was depending on his Senate majority leader, Joe Robinson, to pass perhaps the most important...
Newsweek, 12/25/06 by Michael Beschloss · More from publication -
History: The Five-Year Itch
In the fall of 1937, less than a year after winning re-election by the greatest popular landslide in history, Franklin Roosevelt was suffering from...
Newsweek, 11/07/05 by Michael Beschloss · More from publication -
The Thawing of the Cold War
Whether history will view Ronald Reagan as a great president depends, more than anything else, on one question: how much credit does he deserve for...
Newsweek, 06/14/04 by Michael Beschloss (Beschloss is the author, most recently, of "The Conquerors.") · More from publication
