Idaho Congressman Mike Simpson had the perfect reaction when he was told that the embattled Florida congressman, Matt Gaetz, ...

President-elect Donald Trump has held a wide-ranging news conference in which he took questions from reporters for the first time since winning the election.

But growing opposition to the war in Vietnam, unrest on college campuses ... Sensing Johnson's vulnerability, Senator Robert F. Kennedy of New York entered the race for the Democratic nomination.

Former senator Fred R. Harris ... agenda and whose progressive politics also enamored him to members of the Kennedy political dynasty. “Time magazine once reported that I was the only person ...

Harris to the U.S. Senate. Born to a dirt-poor family in a ... He became pals with Robert F. Kennedy Sr. Harris was the last surviving member of the Kerner Commission, which in 1968 produced ...

The hysterical and vitriolic attacks made by Massachusetts’s Democratic Senator Elizabeth ... disastrous war in Vietnam with the support of the Achesonian establishment Kennedy himself put ...

Kennedy. Joe Biden was a longtime member of and held power in the Senate Judiciary Committee ... For Johnson, the Vietnam War, was instituted to stop, as if it were really possible, the “loss ...

He and others pressed Humphrey to use the convention to break with Johnson on the Vietnam War ... We had my Senate seatmate Robert Kennedy killed and then we had this terrible convention ...

We had my Senate seatmate Robert Kennedy killed, and then we had this ... to use the convention to break with Johnson on the Vietnam War. But Humphrey waited to do so until late in the campaign ...

She couldn’t see it as merely a consolation prize after losing the presidential election, or view it as a stepping stone back ...