But on the first Inauguration Day, in 1789, George Washington did something else ... helping to sustain what Franklin Roosevelt in his second inaugural called “our covenant with ourselves.” ...

An expensive journey to Washington, a long wait in the cold ... the more than 800,000 people in D.C. for President Obama's second inauguration. Who were they, and what compelled those who attended ...

Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office ... that precedent was cemented in the Twenty-Second Amendment. Major Acts Washington’s ...

A president's second ... by design. Washington officials are expecting about 800,000 visitors on Jan. 21 rather than the record 1.8 million who flooded the city for Obama's first inauguration ...

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump took the oath of office on Monday inside a tightly packed Capitol Rotunda, where he was surrounded by a very different Washington than he was eight years ago.