Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas met with a group July 2 to hear a proposal to name the KCI terminal for President Harry ...

LANHAM, Md. — Saws are buzzing in the cavernous warehouse where a Maryland company is fast at work on making parade floats it has provided for presidential inaugurations since Harry Truman's in ...

When Is Inauguration Day 2025? Monday, Jan. 20, is when Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance will be sworn into office at the U.S. Capitol.

Harry S. Truman, the 33rd U.S. president, is being celebrated this year to mark the 75th anniversary of his inauguration. The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum in Independence, Missouri, offers ...

When Harry Truman arrived at Washington’s Union Station to leave for Independence six hours after the inauguration he was greeted by a cheering crowd so heavy that he had trouble getting to his ...

In 1949, as Harry S Truman prepared for the first presidential inauguration since the end of WW II and the Holocaust and the creation of Israel, he expanded a tradition and invited a rabbi to speak at ...

The American flag sitting atop of the White House was lowered to half-staff following Donald Trump's inauguration to honor the late former President Jimmy Carter. According to U.S. flag code, 'all ...

Bess Truman, 1945 Harry S. Truman and Bess Truman. AP Photo No inaugural ball was held when President Harry S. Truman was sworn in shortly after Roosevelt's death in 1945.

Most new presidents offer grace notes to the wider world. In his 1949 inaugural address, President Harry Truman offered a promise of significant material aid to a war-ravaged international community.

But, its founder, Earl Hargrove Jr., used to be known as the ‘President’s prop man’. Hargrove was the mastermind behind decades of inaugural floats, from President Truman to Obama.