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From historic Bibles to the leading role of the country's chief justice, Inauguration Day has been filled with traditions.

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

Those four little words are not in the Constitution, but for many Americans, the phrase has been a part of the oath ever ...

Three score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we now stand, delivered, “I Have a Dream,” calling for an ...

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