Cold Warriors

Observations of the presidential era from the end of the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Republican Polarities: ‘The Bush Years’ and ‘Tricky Dick’

Republican Polarities: ‘The Bush Years’ and ‘Tricky Dick’

Two CNN Original Series multiple-part documentaries paint very different portraits of the Bush and Nixon presidencies.
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Lyndon Johnson's Election Daisy Girl

Lyndon Johnson’s Election and His Daisy Girl

The 'Daisy Girl' campaign ad warned America about Barry Goldwater's extremism.
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John F. Kennedy boyhood home

JFK’s Boyhood Home

John F. Kennedy lived in a modest middle-class Brookline, Mass., neighborhood for the first three years of his life.
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