Inaugural addresses that newly minted presidents have given over the past 250 years have aimed to do several key things, ...

The only constitutionally mandated event on Inauguration Day is for the president-elect to take the oath of office. But on ...

When Donald Trump assumes office on Jan. 20 as the 47th president of the United States, he will mark the solemn occasion with ...

What would George Washington or Thomas Jefferson have made of social media? The question has occurred to Jeffrey Rosen because he believes that with the advent of these new communications technologies ...

The Kentucky Republican has, after all, been caught pushing fake quotes from Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. Paul, however, is not without ...

Rand Paul tends to be in a league of his own. The Kentucky Republican has, after all, been caught pushing fake quotes from Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln and George ...

The Trump Organization issued an ethics agreement that it said would govern how the family and President-elect Donald J.

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Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is promising to implement Donald Trump’s “America First” vision as secretary of state ...

The statues of Lincoln and other presidents — including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Harry Truman and Gerald Ford, whom Carter defeated in 1976 — line the rotunda. After the eulogies ...