The presidential inauguration ceremony will take place on what could be the coldest inauguration day since 1985.
President Donald Trump redecorated the Oval Office with many of the same artifacts from his first White House term.
Donald Trump takes office with the most expensive stock market in history. He wouldn’t welcome a slump, but most investors should.
Wishing you all a very happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day! I thought it would be a good time to find some impactful quotes from presidential inaugural speeches and from King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.
Dear Readers: Wishing you all a very happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day!
Dear Readers: Wishing you all a very happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day!
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.” -- Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865.
A president’s inauguration is a historic day, where scores of Americans travel across the country to see their new president get sworn in and give their first speech as commander in chief.
One function of these addresses is to bring the country together. As one political scientist put it, they brim with 'verbal tokens of unity.'
“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.” -- Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865.
Nixon would have to wait eight years to be sworn in as president, while his losing Democratic opponent — outgoing Vice President Hubert Humphrey — looked on. He was inaugurated a second time after winning reelection in 1972, only to resign after the Watergate scandal.
Donald Trump's inauguration can be livestreamed via the internet in real time all over the world. It wasn't always so easy to tune into a presidential address.