Full federal funding for presidential libraries should bring with it new rules of control over papers and artifacts.

Allegations that President Clinton pardoned Marc Rich partly in return for donations to his presidential library have raised questions about the value of such institutions and the federal appropriations that support them.

The number of presidential biographies that make it on [bestseller lists] is astonishing. My Kennedy book [published in 2003] was on there for eight weeks. I'm an academic; I've never had anything like that before.

The consequence of the Bay of Pigs failure wasn't an acceptance of Castro and his control of Cuba but, rather, a renewed determination to bring him down by stealth.

There is a line between scurrilous nonsense and serious discussion that laps over, especially in this day and age when you've got all this electronic media and these blogs and this kind of fanatical impulse to bring down the opposing candidate.

The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.