One function of these addresses is to bring the country together. As one political scientist put it, they brim with 'verbal ...

With the latest presidential inauguration set to take place in Washington on Monday, Eyewitness News takes a look at where the first one took place: the heart of New York City, more than two centuries ...

Dinner parties in the capital have long been a path to power, but Perle Mesta had her eye on a different prize.

“How do you like our new Constitution?” Thomas Jefferson wrote to John Adams in mid-November 1787. Jefferson mostly wanted to ...

Fashion has always been political, but never more so than when coupled with the towering bully pulpit of the U.S. presidency.

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