Congress hasn’t formally declared war in more than 80 years. Here's how President Donald Trump's decision on Iran reflects a ...

As President Richard Nixon addressed a tense nation on live television, his grave demeanor hinted at a pivotal moment, and ...

US President Donald Trump’s Iran strike tests the limits of presidential power and revives a centuries-old debate over who ...

As Israel targets Irans nuclear sites, pressure builds in Washington over whether President Trump can act without Congress.

The question being projected by the White House as President Donald Trump mulls an offensive strike against Iran is: Will he ...

An unpopular war meant unpopular presidents, and both Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon were widely seen as villains ... presidents have been reluctant to get into more prolonged conflicts. Vietnam ...

That same month, the U.S. launched Operation Rolling Thunder, a prolonged bombing campaign targeting ... should be an early pullout of U.S. troops from Vietnam voiced support for the war or the Nixon ...

Subsequent U.S. military operations, obfuscated to the public by the Johnson and then the Nixon Administrations, ultimately failed to meet the objective of an independent, noncommunist South Vietnam .

While unified, Vietnam was in a disastrous economic situation after the destructive war. Instead of honoring Nixon’s 1973 promise of over ... and assistance just as the USSR was going into its ...

By December 1974, the general sense was that the United States would be most unlikely to re-intervene in the Vietnam War. Nixon had resigned four months earlier on August 9, 1974 and the U.S ...

On Feb 21, 1972, then US president Richard Nixon became the first sitting US ... and extricate itself from the quagmire of the Vietnam War. The rapprochement with China achieved all three ...