But on the first Inauguration Day, in 1789, George Washington did something else ... helping to sustain what Franklin Roosevelt in his second inaugural called “our covenant with ourselves.” ...

An expensive journey to Washington, a long wait in the cold ... the more than 800,000 people in D.C. for President Obama's second inauguration. Who were they, and what compelled those who attended ...

Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office ... that precedent was cemented in the Twenty-Second Amendment. Major Acts Washington’s ...

A descendant of John Ball, the medieval English preacher who led the first popular rebellion in England, George ... Washington was elected unanimously by the electoral college. After his ...

George Washington was the son of Augustine Washington (1694-1743) and his second wife, Mary Ball Washington ... Washington started the tradition of the inaugural address as well as the Presidential ...