There was a president who was much less healthy than the public image of him conveyed. If [the public] knew about it in 1960, I doubt that he would have been elected.

During Grover Cleveland's second term, in the 1890s, the White House deceived the public by dismissing allegations that surgeons had removed a cancerous growth from the President's mouth; a vulcanized-rubber prosthesis disguised the absence of much of Cleveland's upper left jaw and part of his palate.

Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.

If nobody trusts you as president, then you can't get anything done.

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.

When President Obama first unveiled his gun control proposals recommending a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines and better background checks, there seemed to be momentum behind the effort. But then the proposals ran into a wall.