Ronald Reagan started a tradition as he prepared to leave office after two terms as president: Write a note congratulating your successor and leave it in the Oval Office desk drawer.
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America made its history as the first Black person, Barack Obama, was sworn in as the 44th president of the country. In front of record-breaking crowds, the young senator became the commander-in-chief of the United States,
On Monday, freezing temperatures in Washington D.C. prompted organizers to move President Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony inside the Capitol Rotunda for the first time since 1985.
Ronald and Nancy Reagan were disappointed. That’s what White House press secretary Larry Speakes told reporters on Jan. 18, 1985, after the Republican president and first lady decided to hold his second inauguration indoors because of an unusually cold weather forecast.
Washington, D.C., will experience a high of 21 degrees and a low of 11 degrees around noon when the inauguration is set to begin.
It will be the coldest Inauguration Day since former President Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration in 1985, when the noon temperature was 7 degrees.
The worst weather for an inaugural came in March 1909, when 10 inches of snow forced William H. Taft to move indoors to be sworn in.
The second Presential inauguration of Donald Trump averaged 24.3 million viewers, a audience lower than Biden in 2021 (33.8 million) and Trump in 2017 (30.6 million).
Overall, the country that Trump is inheriting from Biden is in pretty good shape on everything from the economy to democracy, but Americans remain unhappy due to issues such as inflation and home prices, and long-term problems remain.
A federal appeals court has ruled against an Obama-era policy shielding hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have long lived in the United States from deportation.
President-elect Donald Trump's decision to move his inauguration ceremony indoors because of cold weather has prompted comparisons to similarly cold weather during President Barack Obama's 2008 ...