The civil service was once politicized. Then a president was assassinated.
Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...
U.S. presidents who weren't inaugurated outside the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
President-elect Donald Trump's will be sworn in under the Capitol Rotunda, rather than outside. But he's not the only ...
Presidential history: The time and place of presidential inaugurations
A combination of harsh weather and delay in individual states choosing electors pushed the inauguration to April 30, 1789. At ...