Washington — I see that President Calvin Coolidge is in the news, along with his sidekick Warren Gamaliel Harding. Warren was a mediocrity’s mediocrity and was long held to be the worst president of modern times. That was until Jimmy…

The Jazz Age President: Defending Warren G. Harding By Ryan S. Walters (Regnery History, 320 pages, $25.44) Warren G. Harding, who was president from 1921 until his death in 1923, has been disparaged, defamed, and derided for the past century….

It is time to schedule a recall election for both President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. They are clearly in over their heads and incapable of governing. Their tepid response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine is only…

Campaign of the Century: Kennedy, Nixon and the Election of 1960 By Irwin F. Gellman (Yale University Press, 504 pages, $35) I was but 14 in 1960, but do have a very personal memory of the Kennedy/Nixon campaign. We had…

Real and fictional presidents have graced or disgraced the silver screen for its entire existence, encompassing half the history of America. Interestingly, our greatest modern president was a movie star for almost 30 years. Ronald Reagan was an undervalued actor,…

Saturday–Beverly Hills Another perfect day here. Blue skies. Slight breeze. No clouds. Temperatures in the mid-70s. I’ve been blown to pieces by the truth that it’s President’s Weekend and almost no attention is being given to the greatest American President…

It has become commonplace for historians and scholars to compare presidential corruption to Warren Harding, claiming he is the standard to measure dishonesty in the White House. It is repeated on both sides of the political aisle, Republicans as well…

In the previous installments of this look back on the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt, I have identified specific policy areas of failure that historians and FDR partisans ignore, downplay, or explain away in their infatuation with the nation’s 32nd president….

We are approaching another “Presidents’ Day,” which will be celebrated this year on February 21. This federal holiday has evolved from a celebration of George Washington’s birthday (February 22) to an amorphous celebration of all of our nation’s presidents. But…

Like many people my age (62), I was taught both at home and in school that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a great president. FDR, I was taught, saved American democracy in the 1930s with the New Deal and led the…