Dinner parties in the capital have long been a path to power, but Perle Mesta had her eye on a different prize.
One function of these addresses is to bring the country together. As one political scientist put it, they brim with 'verbal ...
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 ...
On the eve of Trump’s second inaugural address, Americans wonder whether he will follow the path of Jefferson and Lincoln ...
Revisiting Dwight Eisenhower’s 1953 inauguration, from the vantage point of George W. Bush’s 2001 inauguration.
The president’s pardon of Garvey, a seminal figure of the civil rights movement, is another reflection of his presidency’s ...
11 attack on the Pentagon, and the Washington-area sniper shootings. When Ward made the move to television reporting, his first job was at WKBW-TV in Buffalo. He returned to Washington in 2006 and ...