LOS ANGELES – Even Michael Douglas had doubts about portraying Benjamin Franklin in the Oscar-winning actor's first period drama. Douglas, 79, who famously proclaimed "Greed is Good" in his ...

Portrait Medallion of Benjamin Franklin, 1777, terracotta, by Jean Baptiste Nini, Italian, 1717–1786. In a letter to his daughter on June 3, 1779, Benjamin Franklin wrote about the wide dissemination ...

President Trump’s redecorated Oval Office includes a portrait of Benjamin Franklin and a fresh Andrew Jackson painting, part of an Inauguration Day overhaul of the most exclusive office space in ...

Benjamin Franklin portrait from 1778, by Joseph Siffred Duplessis. Writing when he was 79 years old, Franklin tells us in his autobiography that in his youth he’d listed a dozen virtues he ...

Portrait of Benjamin Franklin (1789) by Charles Willson Peale. ... “A leader has a vision.”) In part because Benjamin Franklin had such a multifarious career—printer, writer, humorist, ...

Douglas, 79, who famously proclaimed "Greed is Good" in his iconic 1987 "Wall Street" role, just had to glance at Franklin's ubiquitous portrait on the $100 bill to see there wasn't much ...