President Lyndon Johnson surveys the damage done to Washington DC during the riots after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr in 1968.
Posted 29th Apr 2026r/Presidents
Posted 29th Apr 2026r/USHistory
Sept 68: Humphrey finally broke from LBJ and declared his own Vietnam policy on TV. He called LBJ to talk down his policy statements, even though the speech was already taped. LBJ didn't break it to him that a copy of the speech was found by GOP staffers who gave it to Nixon, who then tipped off LBJ
Did Saddam Hussein want the Clinton and Bush administrations to believe he still had WMDs?
1932 US Presidential Election Map broken down by county (FDR vs Hoover). Back when the South led the charge for the Democratic Party.
Posted 27th Apr 2026r/MapPorn
During the 1968 race, LBJ told veteran diplomat Robert Murphy that if Eugene McCarthy were nominated in Chicago, he planned to publicly support Nixon, and if Humphrey were nominated and did not stay strong on Vietnam, a win by Nixon would be better for the country.
Posted 27th Apr 2026r/Presidents
October 1, 1996, President Bill Clinton welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Jordan's King Hussein, and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat for a lunch meeting in the White House Library. Over a shared meal, they fostered dialogue and paved pathways toward peace.
In practice, which would have worked better for the American system, Truman's NHS healthcare plan, or Nixon's "Nixoncare" plan?
Posted 26th Apr 2026r/Presidents
Sergeant Rachel Forehand, from Brooklyn, New York, rests her head on a stuffed bear as the U.N. deadline for Iraq to withdraw from Kuwait passed in Saudi Arabia on January 16, 1991.
Posted 26th Apr 2026r/USHistory
Rebecca Spice, a tourist from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is flanked by Joel Kopischke, left, and Robert Simonson, both of New York, as they read a bulletin edition of the New York Post reporting the outbreak of hostilities in the Persian Gulf in New York’s Times Square on January 17, 1991.
U.S. President George H. W. Bush adjusts paperwork in the Oval Office of the White House on January 16, 1991 in Washington following his statement concerning the U.S. attack of Iraq. The president said, “The world could wait no longer,” for U.S. action.
Spiro Agnew's resignation speech as US Vice President after pleading no contest to a single felony count of tax evasion for the year 1967. He agreed to resign in exchange for avoiding prison and served three years unsupervised probation and paid a fine of $10,000.
Under which President did the majority of Americans have the least anxiety about the state of the country and the future?
Thoughts on Say Anything?
Posted 26th Apr 2026r/80s
Did Ronald Reagan being divorced have any impact on the social stigma of being a divorcee?
Three great movies from 1988 that I'm surprised aren't as remembered as they should be
Young Kosovar Albanians make obscene gestures at a busload of Serb police as they are bused out of the Kosovo region (1999)
Posted 25th Apr 2026r/HistoricalCapsule
Are the Gulf War and the NATO Bombing of Yugoslavia American foreign policy at its best?
Posted 25th Apr 2026r/Presidents
Students Amy Acker of Rochester and Sandra Ceplo of Afton comfort a tearful Megan Murray, of Mechanicville, while placing yellow bows and ribbons on campus at Cazenovia College on 1/15/91. Scores of students, many with loved ones serving in the Gulf War decorated the campus in support of US troops.
Posted 25th Apr 2026r/USHistory
What if the 1964 election was JFK vs Rockefeller like many believed it would be early on?
1972 US Presidential election map by county
Posted 24th Apr 2026r/MapPorn
If the Union had exacted a severe campaign of retributoin against the South after the Civil war (extended occupation, execution of most CSA leadership, disenfranchisement, land confiscation) would it have ended up creating an insurgency like similar things did in Iraq in the 2000s?
Posted 24th Apr 2026r/AlternateHistoryHub
Coretta Scott King sent this telegram to Alabama Governor George Wallace regarding the death of his wife Lurleen on May 7, 1968 just 33 days after the assassination of her husband
Posted 24th Apr 2026r/Presidents
What would have happened if President Ford defied Congress by launching airstrikes to try and save South Vietnam during the 1975 Spring Offensive?
How could Jimmy Carter have better "met the moment" as President? Was he simply the wrong style of politician to handle the challenges of that time?
Were Nixon's paranoid delusions bad enough to the point where he could be considered mentally unfit to be President?
Why was Andrew Jackson so defensive of the Union?
Posted 24th Apr 2026r/USHistory
What are some Presidential biographies where the author clearly likes the President so much to the point of hagiography, and others where the author clearly hates the President to the point of unfairness?
Posted 23rd Apr 2026r/Presidents
"That's the thankfulness I get from THIS MAN! Story after story after story after story! I'm SOSICKOFIT! I'm PISSED!"
Posted 23rd Apr 2026r/KitchenNightmares
Why wasn't North brought up on treason charges for Iran Contra?
Posted 23rd Apr 2026r/USHistory
Every night during hours he gets wasted. He gets so drunk.
Posted 22nd Apr 2026r/KitchenNightmares
Gulian in my opinion is not living up to his potential as a chef. He will try to cut corners. And I think Gordon needs to know these things.
Posted 21st Apr 2026r/KitchenNightmares
Who are some Presidents who did more harm than good to themselves by staying involved in politics in their post Presidency, and should have taken the George W. Bush route instead?
Posted 21st Apr 2026r/Presidents
During the 1968 campaign, LBJ kelt a firm grip over Humphrey early in the campaign, scaring Humphrey away from an early break with the President on Vietnam. At one point LBJ threatened to personally ensure he lost Texas and "dry up every Democratic dollar from Maine to California".
People who have read all four, how long did it take you? Did you do all four consecutively or take breaks in between?
Compilation of Richard Nixon meeting famous musicians
Posted 20th Apr 2026r/Presidents
Harry Truman on racism and civil rights
Posted 20th Apr 2026r/ShermanPosting
In 1975, President Gerald Ford signed Senate Joint Resolution 23, posthumously restoring full U.S. citizenship to Confederate General Robert E. Lee. In 1978 President Jimmy Carter signed Public Law 95-466, which posthumously restored the full U.S. citizenship rights of Jefferson Davis.
Posted 19th Apr 2026r/USHistory
PFC Kurt Vonnegut during his WW2 service. He was taken as a POW during the Battle of the Bulge and survived the firebombing of Dresden by taking cover in a meat locker.
If WW2 had never happened and WW1 remained the "war to end all wars", would Woodrow Wilson be remembered more fondly and be more remembered in general?
Posted 19th Apr 2026r/Presidents
How many people on this sub believed that Iraq had WMDs in 2002-2003? It seems like nowadays a lot of people have convinced themselves that they knew it wasn't true all along.
Posted 18th Apr 2026r/Presidents
Would Nixon have made such an obvious pivot towards Southern conservatives and the Southern Strategy if George Wallace hadn't been such a major threat to him?
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