Obama welcomes Australian prime minister

The White House says Afghanistan and climate change will top President Barack Obama's agenda when he meets with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

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Restoration done at Truman's Little White House

A seven-year, nearly $1 million restoration of President Harry Truman's Little White House in South Florida is complete.

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Trove of Bess Truman's papers released to public

Family papers detailing the private life of former first lady Bess Wallace Truman were released Friday, with no apparent bombshells about the wife of President Harry Truman in the more than 24,000 pages.

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Company has inaugural tradition dating to Truman

Saws are buzzing in the cavernous warehouse where a Maryland company is fast at work on making parade floats it has provided for presidential inaugurations since Harry Truman's in 1949.

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A final turkey pardon, with a smile

President George W. Bush is on his way out the door. So you just knew this final pardon was coming.

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Cheney Says Hopes of World Rest on U.S.

Vice President Dick Cheney cast the global war on terror on Tuesday as a "war of nerves," borrowing a phrase Harry Truman used to describe the Cold War. Cheney asserted that the hopes of the civilized world depend on a U.S. victory.

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Truman and the Principles of U.S. Foreign Policy : Jimmy Carter rejected the postwar consensus. President Obama appears to be following a similar path.

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The choice to succeed or fail in Afghanistan is Obama's.

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Jews with a Kabbalistic bent like to use an Aramaic expression to describe this existence: Alma deshikra, world of falsehood.

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Ordinarily we are able to limit the comparisons to Harry S. Truman to the campaign season.

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III. The Living of My Days: the Civil Rights Movement

Late 1940s. small town Central Texas Seven or eight years old, I would sit under the ironing-board where "Ka-Ka" pressed shirts while we listened to the radio: "Young Widder Brown", "Lorenzo Jones", "One Man's Family".

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In the 22 months of this election season, celebrity endorsements have generated a great deal of buzz. Polls say they don't matter, but some experts say big names can translate to a boost in ballots.

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Trick-or-treaters of all ages and genders are putting the "boo" in Caribou Barbie, using everything from latex masks to hockey sticks to costume themselves as Gov. Sarah Palin. "This is definitely a phenomenon," said a costume company exec.

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In the 22 months of this election season, celebrity endorsements have generated a great deal of buzz. Polls say they don't matter, but some experts say big names can translate to a boost in ballots.

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Trick-or-treaters of all ages and genders are putting the "boo" in Caribou Barbie, using everything from latex masks to hockey sticks to costume themselves as Gov. Sarah Palin. "This is definitely a phenomenon," said a costume company exec.

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In a poll of a quarter of a million students who are too young to vote, Democratic nominee Barack Obama sailed to victory with 57 percent of the vote while Republican nominee John McCain received 39 percent.

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In a poll of a quarter of a million students who are too young to vote, Democratic nominee Barack Obama sailed to victory with 57 percent of the vote while Republican nominee John McCain received 39 percent.

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In 1948, they had Harry Truman and "The buck stops here!" In 2008, they've got Barack Obama and it's "above my pay grade." This is definitely not your grandfather's Democratic Party.

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In the celebrations next week surrounding Israel's 60th anniversary, it should not be forgotten that there was an epic struggle in Washington over how to respond to Israel's declaration of independence on May 14, 1948.

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Congratulations to George W. Bush and the Republican Party for another historic milestone set by the Great Leader: At 39 months in the doghouse, George W. Bush has surpassed Harry Truman's record as the postwar president to linger longest without majority public approval.

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Truman biographer David McCullough warns that about 50 years have to go by before a presidency can be historically appraised.

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For all the Barack Obama-J. F. K. comparisons, whether legitimate or over-the-top, what has often been forgotten is that Mr. Obama's weaknesses resemble Kennedy's at least as much as his strengths. But to compensate for those shortcomings, he gets an extra benefit that J. F.

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By cutting rates by a total of one point since August, Bernanke has clearly moved toward a policy of stimulus.

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A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had a plan to suspend habeas corpus and imprison some 12,000 Americans he suspected of disloyalty.

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Throughout history man has been making predictions of the future. With the advent of technology, the predictions moved away from religious topics to scientific and techological.

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Description: Facsimiles and transcriptions of the 1945-1959 correspondence between Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. The correspondence shows how "from a formal, often wary, political relationship developed also a strong friendship.

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To some, the prospect that socialized medicine would still frighten anyone is absurd. Fears that "creeping socialism" might insidiously erode American freedoms are a relic of a distant age, like worries about fluoride in the water.

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Several good reasons why the U.S. probably won't attack Iran (Including some strong resistance from many in the military).

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It's one of the weirder political rites of passage -- run for the White House, and soon there's a small crowd of genealogists rustling around in the branches and twigs of your family tree, looking to make those links to Charlemagne, Miles Standish or Princess Di.

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Already tired of the 2008 presidential campaign? Remind yourself why it matters over the next 12 weeks. Presidential Libraries: History Uncovered begins at 7 tonight on C-SPAN, offering what presidential historian Richard Norton Smith predicts will be "a kind of history that peo …

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What's wrong with George W. Bush? Doesn't he know America has already been defeated in Iraq? Doesn't he read The New York Times? Doesn't he listen to NPR?

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