Donald Trump will become the 47th President on Monday. However, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt stand out as America's greatest leaders in its 250-year history.
Washington, D.C., wasn ... at Fort George rang out in a military salute. Later, church bells tolled throughout the city for half an hour. Shortly before the inauguration began, the president-elect traveled from his temporary lodging at Franklin House ...
1789 — A presidential inauguration has taken place every four years since George Washington took the oath of office in New York City in 1789. He established the tradition for a two term limit and Thomas Jefferson institutionalized it. This tradition was followed by subsequent presidents until President Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected four times.
As a result, Washington would be the only president sworn into office outside of Washington, D.C. At sunrise that morning, cannons at Fort George rang ... lodging at Franklin House — which ...
William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S. presidency and as the reigning scholar on Franklin Roosevelt and the
President Woodrow Wilson facilitated the segregation of a diverse federal workforce, where Black and White professionals had been working together for years.
If you've never been to Washington ... the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial and the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial. A memorial to Virginia Declaration of Rights author George Mason, also ...
President Donald Trump, with his usual bombast, has declared that his second term will be a new “golden age” for the country.
In “A Perfect Frenzy,” Andrew Lawler reveals the hypocrisies of the patriots on the battleground of colonial Virginia.
President Donald Trump says McKinley made the United States prosperous through tariffs. Historians say that’s an incomplete understanding of the 25th president.
Insurrection. It’s a word I didn’t expect to hear at the campaign launch for Peter George, the independent candidate running in the Tasmanian seat of Franklin. But that’s how George ...
The application deadline for the online MBA programs at George Washington University, a private school, is rolling. Ninety-one percent of students are already employed when they first enroll.