For decades, Americans have gathered at the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. to watch the inauguration of the incoming ...
President-elect Donald Trump's will be sworn in under the Capitol Rotunda, rather than outside. But he's not the only ...
Inauguration Day is a crucial moment ... of 1865 following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Chester A. Arthur in September of 1881 following the assassination of James Garfield, Theodore ...
In repeating the 35-word presidential oath, Donald Trump will fulfill every inaugural requirement of the Constitution, which ...
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Julia Sand wrote to then-vice president Chester A ... the story begins on July 2, 1881, the day President James Garfield was shot. Arthur was known as a “machine” politician, one who ...
Born: October 5, 1830, in Fairfield, Vermont... "Arthur is president now," declared James Garfield's assassin. A cog in the New York party machine, upon his presidency, Arthur revealed an ...
because Inauguration Day has sometimes fallen on a Sunday, four presidents have taken the oath privately before the public inaugural ceremonies, the website states. President Chester Arthur took ...