Former President Donald Trump stands trial on April 15, 2024.
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Donald Trump stands trial – the first former president to do so – on April 15, 2024.
President Biden meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on arriving in Tel Aviv on Oct. 18.
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Until 1906, no US president had ever traveled abroad in office. Then Teddy Roosevelt demonstrated the power of showing up.
Cuban President Fidel Castro watches former U.S. President Jimmy Carter throw a baseball on May 14, 2002, in Havana, Cuba.
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Beloved in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, Jimmy Carter became the 39th US president and used his office to make human rights a priority throughout the world.
President Joe Biden talks to the widow of Republican senator John McCain at a speech he gave on democracy.
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Biden’s team are about to launch a US$25 million television advertising blitz in key battleground states.
President Joe Biden and family after he was sworn in at the U.S. Capitol, January 20, 2021.
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Politics, age and gender combine to shape the understanding of presidents’ families – and the presidents themselves.
Of the eight Republicans on stage at the party’s first presidential debate, six were current or former governors.
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A former executive director of the National Governors Association explains what it is about certain governors that makes them less suited for the presidency.
George Washington, hand on the Bible, at his inauguration in 1789 as the first president of the U.S.
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When America was young, its leaders had no trouble retiring from public service and public life. That’s not universally true now.
Former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence appear together in November 2020.
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Pence’s announcement that he will run for president brings to mind how rare it is for a vice president to compete against a former running mate.
Keri Russell plays a a nonpolitical straight shooter in a political role that she grudgingly accepts.
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Although the series perpetuates the stereotype that politically ambitious women can’t be trusted in high office, it thoughtfully portrays the ubiquity of everyday sexism in political culture.
Scranton Joe meets Buckingham Chaz.
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No US president has ever attended a British royal coronation – but history shows that they signal intent by whom they choose to go in their stead.
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If elected, Biden would be the oldest person to occupy the White House. But he’s by far the most popular candidate the Democrats have.
Looming large over proceedings.
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A House panel made four criminal referrals in relation to Donald Trump’s alleged role in the attack on the Capitol. Convictions might make him an unpalatable candidate but wouldn’t bar him from running.
Former US President Donald Trump speaks in Palm Beach, Florida, on Nov.15, 2022.
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The former president made little mention of his personal legal battles as he announced his bid to retake the White House.
Numerous rap songs criticize the Reagan administration for its complicity in the illicit drug trade.
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Ronald Reagan may have been known as ‘The Great Communicator,’ but rap artists don’t view his legacy through such rose-colored glasses. A professor of Black studies and history takes a closer look.
President Joe Biden delivers the State of the Union address in the U.S. Capitol on March 1, 2022, among many lawmakers who may want his job.
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A combination of irrelevancy, powerlessness and derision is in store for a president who chooses not to run for reelection.
President Calvin Coolidge stands with members of a nonprofit group called the Daughters of 1812.
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US President Calvin Coolidge hasn’t gone down in history for his triumphs or failures as president during the 1920s – but his dry sense of humor carries on.
William Ruto
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As an outlier in Kenya’s political power matrix, Ruto was elbowed out by the establishment. But he has somersaulted back by appealing directly to the masses.
In the hot seat: it has been a challenging first 12 months in the White House for Joe Biden.
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It’s been a tough year for the 47th US president.
Pope John Paul II met with President Ronald Reagan in Miami in 1987.
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Joe Biden may be only the country’s second Catholic president, but a long line of U.S. leaders have met with popes over the years.
Joe Biden has signed dozens of executive orders during his first 100 days in office, many of them reversing Trump-era policies.
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Since the Roosevelt administration, it’s become standard to look for accomplishments in a presidency’s early months.