Before last weekend's attack on Donald Trump, would-be assassins unsuccessfully targeted Ronald Reagan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and seven other sitting presidents or candidates for office.

The new American ambassador, Edward Walsh, is not the first to find himself at odds with Irish opinion makers – during his ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933 Seventeen days before his first inauguration, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt was nearly shot when Giuseppe Zangara fired five shots at him during a trip to ...

From Donald Trump to Ronald Reagan to the Roosevelts and Andrew Jackson, here are the most prominent assassination attempts in U.S. history ... Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933 .

While the observation will outrage Democrats and Republicans alike, in terms of style, not politics, President-elect Donald Trump is reminiscent of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Ronald Reagan knew character counted and he idolized Franklin Roosevelt. But when asked why he left Roosevelt’s Democratic Party, he often responded , “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party ...

Ronald Reagan was born on this day in 1911. We look back on how his presidency shaped Republicans. ... Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson are other examples of such figures, ...

The small town of Dixon, Ill., where Ronald Reagan grew up, ... Mr. Reagan admired Franklin D. Roosevelt, ultimately marrying Roosevelt’s sunny optimism to a conservative credo.