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President Trump Has Long Been Obsessed With Secret Tapes

By Abigail Simon

Americans Say Obama Was Best President of Their Lifetimes

By Abigail Simon

Here's a First Look at Woody Harrelson as Lyndon Johnson in LBJ

By TIME Staff

6 Poems 2016 Candidates Should Read

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Why We Should Reconsider the War on Crime

Fifty years after it began, the initiative has brought America to a crossroads

By Elizabeth Hinton

The Secret Service and LBJ's Daughter: A Portrait From 50 Years Ago

LIFE.com looks back 50 years, to another era -- another world -- when Secret Service agents watched over the president and his family in ways likely inconceivable in today's environment.

By Ben Cosgrove

Job Corps Celebrates 50 Years

The little-known program has helped more than 2 million find jobs since its founding

By Justin Worland

LIFE With JFK: Classic Portraits of a Political Superstar, 1947-1963

Photographs -- many of which are classics, several of which never ran in LIFE magazine -- from the decade and a half when JFK was on his way to becoming the most powerful person on earth.

By Ben Cosgrove

War on Poverty: Portraits From an Appalachian Battleground, 1964

Fifty years after LBJ declared a "War on Poverty" in America, LIFE presents a series of photos made by John Dominis in eastern Kentucky in 1964.

By Ben Cosgrove

LIFE at Inaugurations: Rare and Classic Photos, 1933 - 1969

On the occasion of Barack Obama's second inauguration, LIFE.com offers a series of pictures — some classic, some that never ran in LIFE — of inaugural ceremonies from Roosevelt through Nixon.

By Ben Cosgrove

The Dawn of Camelot: LIFE at JFK's Inauguration

On the eve of Barack Obama's inauguration, LIFE.com presents a series of pictures from the inauguration of another young president who faced unprecedented challenges, and expectations.

By Ben Cosgrove

1967: Pictures From a Pivotal Year

That the 1960s still hold remarkable sway over the American psyche is hardly a matter of debate. How people respond to the decade’s grip on the national imagination, on the other hand — well, that’s...

By Ben Cosgrove
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