Just ten days ago, at Jimmy Carter's state funeral at Washington National Cathedral today, all five living U.S. presidents ...

As President Joe Biden prepared to pass the baton to President-elect Donald Trump, he followed the tradition of leaving his ...

Monday’s change of Oval Office occupants is a ritual full of traditions and customs. One of the more modern ones began in 1989, when Ronald Reagan left a note for George H.W. Bush on stationery with a ...

Every president since Ronald Reagan has left a note for his successor, and President Joe Biden could be the first to write a ...

The worst weather for an inaugural came in March 1909, when 10 inches of snow forced William H. Taft to move indoors to be ...

George Will writes a twice-weekly column on politics and domestic and foreign affairs. He began his column with The Post in 1974, and he received the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1977.

Reagan’s inauguration was the first to be held on the west terrace of the U.S. Capitol, a vantage that planners selected both ...

Jimmy Carter nodded politely toward Ronald Reagan at the Republican's inauguration. Richard Nixon clasped John F.

Washington mourned Jimmy Carter last week at the National Cathedral, which has been a guide for activism in the Trump era ...