18 Sep 2018
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Republican men — and not a single GOP woman — will be Christine Blasey Ford's interrogators on the Senate Judiciary Committee
18 Sep 2018 9:21pm GMT
Trump on Kavanaugh: 'I feel so badly for him'
President Trump is standing by Brett Kavanaugh amid sexual assault allegations against his Supreme Court nominee.
18 Sep 2018 5:35pm GMT
Washington House race is about Trump, whether the candidates like it or not
18 Sep 2018 3:18pm GMT
Kavanaugh’s downfall, once impossible, now seems very possible
A nomination that appeared to be a sure thing for President Trump and the GOP is now barely hanging on.
18 Sep 2018 12:13pm GMT
Leadership in the Oval Office, from FDR to Barack Obama
"CBS This Morning" co-anchor John Dickerson's essay on presidential leadership is based on a series of Yahoo News interviews with historians.
18 Sep 2018 9:05am GMT
Lyndon B. Johnson: Moral clarity on civil rights
Journalist and historian Jonathan Darman, author of "Landslide: LBJ and Ronald Reagan at the Dawn of a New America," spoke to Yahoo News about Lyndon Johnson's defining moment of presidential leadership: the risky decision to pursue civil-rights legislation over the objections of his fellow Southern Democrats - and his own political advisers.
18 Sep 2018 9:00am GMT
George W. Bush: Standing up for tolerance after 9/11
Peter Baker, author of "Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House" spoke to Yahoo News about the younger Bush's defining moment of presidential leadership: standing up to anti-Muslim hatred and discrimination after the attacks on Sept. 11. 2001.
18 Sep 2018 9:00am GMT
Jimmy Carter: Staking his reputation on a dream of Mideast peace
Journalist and historian Jonathan Alter, author of a forthcoming biography of Jimmy Carter, spoke to Yahoo News about Carter's defining moment of presidential leadership: his decision to risk his reputation and personally broker a peace deal between Egypt and Israel.
18 Sep 2018 9:00am GMT
Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Calling a ‘bank holiday’ for a collapsing economy
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of "Leadership in Turbulent Times" spoke to Yahoo News about FDR's defining moment of presidential leadership: the "bank holiday" he declared almost immediately upon taking office in 1933, in the hope that doing so would stem the run on the banks and help stabilize the financial system.
18 Sep 2018 9:00am GMT
John F. Kennedy: Cutting a deal with Khrushchev to save the world
Michael Dobbs, author of "One Minute to Midnight," spoke to Yahoo News about JFK's defining moment of presidential leadership: preventing nuclear war with Russia during the Cuban missile crisis.
18 Sep 2018 9:00am GMT
Barack Obama: Going for broke in the bin Laden raid
Peter Bergen, author of "Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad" spoke to Yahoo News about Obama's defining moment of presidential leadership: the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
18 Sep 2018 9:00am GMT
Dwight D. Eisenhower: Facing down the Soviets — and the military-industrial complex
Journalist and historian Evan Thomas, author of "Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World," spoke to Yahoo News about Eisenhower's defining moment of presidential leadership: the courageous decision to defy public pressure and push back on the military-industrial complex at the height of the Cold War.
18 Sep 2018 9:00am GMT
Gerald Ford: Doing the wrong thing for the right reasons
Journalist Barry Werth, author of "31 Days: The Crisis That Gave Us the Government We Have Today," spoke to Yahoo News about Gerald Ford's defining moment of presidential leadership: his pardon of Richard Nixon.
18 Sep 2018 9:00am GMT
George H.W. Bush: Breaking a pledge, doing the right thing on taxes
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Jon Meacham, author of "Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush," spoke to Yahoo News about Bush's defining moment of presidential leadership: the costly decision to defy his Republican base and break his "no new taxes" pledge to bring the federal budget deficit under control.
18 Sep 2018 9:00am GMT
Ronald Reagan: Setting back the ‘doomsday clock’ of nuclear war
Journalist and historian Lou Cannon, author of five books about President Ronald Reagan, spoke to Yahoo News about Reagan's defining moment of presidential leadership: the courageous decision to defy his conservative base and pursue nuclear disarmament with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
18 Sep 2018 9:00am GMT
Harry S. Truman: A courageous stand on integrating the armed forces
Cornelius Bynum, associate professor of history at Purdue University and author of "A. Philip Randolph and the Struggle for Civil Rights," spoke to Yahoo News about Truman's defining moment of presidential leadership: desegregating the U.S. military in 1948, an act that went against public opinion and the advice of many of his top military leaders.
18 Sep 2018 9:00am GMT