Credit: Library of ... mandated event on Inauguration Day is for the president-elect to take the oath of office. But on the first Inauguration Day, in 1789, George Washington did something else.

George Washington is the only president ... dipping to a record-low 7 degrees Fahrenheit, per the Library of Congress. Reagan's public inauguration was instead held inside the U.S. Capitol ...

But inaugural addresses and analysis of the speeches were not always available immediately. In 1789, when George Washington ... just a year before at the Library of Congress.

According to the Library of Congress, "Hail to the Chief" is the ... to both commemorate the end of the War of 1812 and honor George Washington, who died in 1799. Four years after Van Buren ...

George Washington was inaugurated as the ... The Lincoln Bible, which is stored at the Library of Congress, is the one used by Abraham Lincoln at his first inauguration in 1861. President Obama was ...