Just ten days ago, at Jimmy Carter's state funeral at Washington National Cathedral today, all five living U.S. presidents ...

Joe Biden, before departing the White House for the final time today, will leave Donald Trump a letter on the the Resolute ...

Ronald Reagan probably didn't realize he was starting a tradition when he wrote a note congratulating his successor and left ...

“How do you like our new Constitution?” Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams in mid-November 1787. Jefferson mostly wanted to ...

Which president had the longest inaugural address? Which has been sworn in the most? Which ended the ceremony’s top-hat ...

Monday’s change of Oval Office occupants is a ritual full of traditions and customs. One of the more modern ones began in 1989, when Ronald Reagan left a note for George H.W. Bush on stationery with a ...

Revisiting Dwight Eisenhower’s 1953 inauguration, from the vantage point of George W. Bush’s 2001 inauguration.

The true test of leadership is not in the position, but in the impact you have on others.” — John Quincy Adams Related: ...

Some presidents did not use a Bible to take the oath of office, including Theodore Roosevelt, who did not use anything when ...