Jimmy Carter redefined his legacy after his presidency. Other presidents, especially Hoover and Nixon, tried but failed to outrun or outwork their unhappy presidential legacies. Like John Quincy Adams before him, Carter will mostly be remembered for what came after his time in the White House rather than those four years in it—as he should be.

Herbert Hoover signed the retaliatory Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, and it only made the Great Depression worse. | Opinion

Herbert Hoover signed the retaliatory Smoot ... For example, on May 19, 1828, President John Quincy Adams signed a bill that set a tax rate of 38% on certain imported goods and 45% on many raw ...

President Joe Biden is about to have a lot more free time. At age 82, Biden is the oldest U.S. president. Unlike his presidential predecessor-turned-successor, Donald Trump, Biden almost certainly won't try a political comeback.

Joe Biden took to the airwaves to babble away at his fellow Americans, touting his “legacy” as president and then whining, in a style he

JD Vance will be the first vice president to have a beard since 1909, when Charles W. Fairbanks served as Theodore Roosevelt's vice president. He is the first vice president to regularly sport facial hair since Charles Curtis in 1933, who was Herbert Hoover's vice president and had a mustache.

I’ll confess that I didn’t want a second of Joe Biden’s self-congratulatory farewell speech last night. I was busy watching the last couple of episodes of American Primeval, the Netflix show about the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre and its aftermath,

First and second children constitute 56 percent of the presidents.

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After the pianist, Vikingur Olafsson, asked for a concerto over beers, the composer, John Adams, wrote “After the Fall,” which will now travel the world. Vikingur Olafsson, left, and John ...

The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will close down on Monday, Jan. 20. Museum officials said they hope to have the facility ready to reopen at some point in summer 2026.

Beginning January 20, the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum will temporarily close its museum. According to a press release, the Hoover Museum will undergo a renovation to transform ...