This morning, I read President Thomas Jefferson’s first and second inaugural addresses (1801, 1805), President Andrew Jackson’s first inaugural (1829) and President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ...

Nixon in 1973 spent less than $4 million on his inauguration. Carter in 1977 spent $3.5 million. Thomas Jefferson in 1801 simply walked to the Capitol to be sworn in and then walked home.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is now the head of USAID, and he said last week he’s paring that staff down from 10,000 to 300 ...

The meaning of Presidents Day has changed dramatically, from being mostly unremarkable and filled with work for Washington in ...

In his second inaugural address ... respectively, Presidents Thomas Jefferson acquired the Louisiana Territory, James Monroe acquired Florida, James Polk acquired Texas, California, Nevada ...

The Office of Personnel Management has just limited access to certain government records on Elon Musk and his DOGE minions.

Donald Trump is the 47th president of the United States, but only 45 have served in the office. Trump is the second president to serve in non-consecutive terms. Grover Cleveland was first when he was ...

But we found out while we were in Philadelphia that the inauguration was going to ... s another to actually stand in the same spot as Thomas Jefferson or Benjamin Franklin or George Washington.” ...

Thomas Jefferson and Calvin Coolidge were sworn in without a Bible as were Theodore Roosevelt and John Quincy Adams. Interestingly, Jefferson was a deist and produced his own version of the Bible ...

Adams’s political boss—New York Governor Kathy Hochul—signalled that the mayor’s time in Gracie Mansion may be coming to an ...