Did JFK’s extra-marital affairs risk national security? While some might argue that a president’s private life is irrelevant ...

Nothing caught global attention and heightened tensions as did the Cuban Missile Crisis. The new young President John F. Kennedy faced off with the Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro and the ...

As the US president’s rollercoaster tariff policy creates global financial chaos, Tim Harford asks: is he in a fight he can’t ...

Before Lincoln turned the idea of “the Union” into a cause worth dying for, he tried other means of ending slavery in America ...

He blinked. Not since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 has an American president engaged in such a high-risk, high-stakes game of chicken with the future of his nation and the world. In that lost age ...

The country's president ... In addition, Kennedy secretly agreed to withdraw missiles from the Turkish bases. Berlin and the Cuban Missile Crisis were decided quickly, but other situations ...

But if President John F. Kennedy was going to make the case ... promise not to deploy offensive weapons in Cuba. As the Cuban missile crisis reached its peak over the next few days, low-flying ...

Westerners fondly remember when US President John F. Kennedy won a nuclear stare-off in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev publicly flinched and Kennedy got to ...

The bomber crews on alert during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis were studying ... At 7 p.m. that evening, President Kennedy gave a 17-minute speech announcing “a quarantine on all offensive ...

Caroline Kennedy’s appointment as US ambassador to Australia is a sign of the rising temperature in the Pacific ...