Nancy Reagan made things difficult at times with her stubbornness.
Rosalynn Carter was a major figure in her husband's campaigns and policy meetings.
President Johnson took on the economy by waging a "war on poverty."
In 1982, the economy under the Reagan Administration looked bleak.
Carter asked Americans to cut down their energy usage during a fireside chat in 1977.
The delegations of Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan met in Geneva in 1985.
Americans were held hostage at the US Embassy in Iran in 1979.
"The kids need to know history. Black and white, they need to know history." June 24, 2014
"If somebody can threaten your life they own you. They own your soul." June 24, 2014.
"I felt morally empowered, but it was very scary," Congressman Frank Barney from Massachusetts.
In the early 1990s, George H.W. Bush was faced with growing economic insecurity.
"We began to rethink some of the attitudes that we had lived with," John Howell.
