As I ran onto the school bus, I was surprised to see that some of the girls were crying. A boy whispered that President John F. Kennedy had been shot and was dead. His words took my breath away. Like ...

During his farewell speech to the nation on Jan. 11, 1989, President Ronald Reagan described the United States as a “shining city upon a hill.'' Reagan built on the phrase preached by Puritan pilgrim ...

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