Tag: Deaths (Obituaries)

In 1983, William H. Luers, a new American ambassador to Czechoslovakia, bet on a long shot for its future: Vaclav ...

Joseph S. Nye Jr., an influential figure in shaping American national security policy, who wrote seminal books on foreign affairs, ...

Alexis Herman, a Democratic Party insider who grew up under segregation in Alabama and went on to become the first ...

Virginia Giuffre, a former victim of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring who said she was “passed around like a platter of ...

J. Bennett Johnston Jr., a Louisiana Democrat who as a four-term United States senator helped shape America’s energy and science ...

Perhaps the most enduring public moment for Mrs. Dukakis during the campaign was a debate question posed about her. The ...

Alan K. Simpson, a plain-spoken former Republican senator from Wyoming who championed immigration reforms and conservative candidates for the Supreme ...

Ron Nessen, who as President Gerald R. Ford’s press secretary from 1974 to 1977 pledged a new era of openness ...

David L. Boren, a popular reform-minded Democrat who led Oklahoma as its governor and then represented it for three terms ...

The sit-in movement that began at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., in 1960 and soon spread to other ...