The Post Produces a President
As Obama is re-elected for a second term, we look back on the 1958 article that is responsible for bringing his father to the U.S.
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Tag Archives: President of the United States
The Unanswerable Question
There is no better example of Americans’ chronic suspicion of their government than the fate of the Warren Commission Report, released 45 years ago this week.
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America’s First Black President Barack Obama
What would Benjamin Franklin say about America’s first black president? Here’s what he’d say: “I told you so!” Franklin, after all, both created the job of president and promoted the abolition of slavery, so Barack Obama’s inauguration represents the final conjunction of two of Franklin’s most significant contributions to life in America. Franklin first proposed ... More
