No U.S. Secretary of War in 75 years has faced such a situation as Henry Lewis Stimson faced last week. He had 1,500,000 soldiers under arms and many of them wanted to go home at a time when he was ...

Democratic president Franklin Roosevelt and Republican secretary of war Henry Stimson formed the “most important bipartisan political alliance in American history,” according to this meticulous study.

When Henry Lewis Stimson was 60, he sailed off to become the governor general of the Philippines. Cal Coolidge was President and the year was 1928. Stimson mellowly described the trip as “a last short ...

Bipartisan cabinet appointments have quietly become a thing of the past. With American politics mired in ugly partisan recriminations, it would be wise to recall that in times before, amid extreme ...

I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter. I mentioned it to you shortly after you took office but have not urged it since on ...