President Calvin Coolidge's inauguration was the first to be broadcast live on the radio. A lot has changed since then.
The inauguration is really about swearing in the next president, but first ladies throughout history have stolen the show ...
holding the bible for Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 — a choice that has since become tradition. She had already been first lady for more than a year, but the president’s first inauguration had ...
Trump became president moments after noon, taking the oath read by Chief Justice John Roberts. Trump was joined by his wife Melania Trump who was holding both a family bible and the one used by ...
As the sun’s glare reflected off the fresh blanket of snow at Kennedy’s inauguration, it proved too bright for Robert Frost to read a ceremonial poem. “Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson tried ...
Since inauguration ceremonies were moved permanently ... Finally, it was 68 degrees in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963 — when Lyndon B. Johnson took the oath aboard Air Force One following Kennedy ...
Inauguration Day used to be held on March ... The first woman to inaugurate a president was Judge Sarah Hughes, who swore in Lyndon B. Johnson aboard Air Force One following the assassination ...
John Quincy Adams used a law text for his 1825 inauguration. Lyndon B. Johnson used a Catholic missal as he was sworn in aboard Air Force One after John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.