Reagan started the tradition in 1989 when he left a letter for his successor, his own Vice President George H.W. Bush. Since Bush, each handover has been from a member of one party to the other. Reagan wrote to H.W. Bush, “Don’t let the turkeys get you ...
A look at the history of presidential letters and whether President Biden will continue the tradition by writing a note for his predecessor-turned-successor, Donald Trump.
President George W. Bush pauses at his desk after he signed a Joint Resolution commemorating Ronald Reagan's 90th birthday in the Oval Office of the White House, Feb. 15, 2001. Credit: AP/Ron ...
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).
WASHINGTON — Ronald Reagan probably didn’t realize he was ... and a country that is pulling for you, including me,” George W. Bush wrote. Obama, who had campaigned vigorously against Trump ...
President-elect Donald Trump selected opera tenor Christopher Macchio to perform the national anthem at the inauguration. Here's a list of some singers at previous presidential inaugurations.
there are framed photographs commemorating the two times this "log cabin resort" has hosted an American president — Ronald Reagan in 1981 for a G7 summit and George W. Bush for a meeting of ...
Americans turn to their leaders for solace in times of mourning. Donald Trump has used national tragedies to make political points or demean critics.
President Donald Trump was already in the midst of a moment like when Ronald Reagan fired the air traffic controllers as a deadly aviation disaster struck. Except Trump was trying to remind federal employees who is the boss much more broadly than Reagan was as he stared down an illegal strike.
President Donald Trump has the lowest initial approval ratings of any president since 1953 — except for himself in 2017.
Airport preferred by Washington lawmakers and lobbyists lies in some of the most congested airspace in the country.
Ever since the second and third presidents, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, died on the same day — July 4th, 1826, the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence — the American presidency has thrown up a goodly number of calendrical coincidences.