On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States. Since Washington took his oath of office, Inauguration Day has continued to be an ...

On this day in 1789, George Washington took the oath of office in New York City. In his First Inaugural Address, he defined the presidency not by what it could do, but by what it must refuse to become ...

The Smithsonian Museums were closed on 20 January. Martin Luther King Day, a federal holiday, would have seen to that anyway, but the inauguration of the 47th President of the United States was the ...

GREENWICH — The bible that George Washington was sworn in on to become the first president of the United States will be on display in Greenwich in June. The bible is officially called the George ...