Category: History - American
Late April and early May of 1865 brought none of the usual springtime joys to Washington, the Capital City; its residents, in common with the rest of the nation, were shaken with grief over the death of President Lincoln. Public buildings and private houses hid behind dismal s...
Late April and early May of 1865 brought none of the usual springtime joys to Washington, the Capital City; its residents, in common with the rest of the nation, were shaken wit...
2. CHAPTER IIDuring the strife and turmoil of the régime of President Johnson, the prestige and popularity of General Grant continued to increase. His brilliant military exploits, his magnan...
3. CHAPTER IIIWashington was in the throes of the coldest weather ever known at an inauguration when Ulysses S. Grant was inducted into office March 4, 1873, for the second time. The morning...
4. CHAPTER IVRutherford Birchard Hayes the nineteenth President of the United States, was the only Chief Executive of the nation to be kept in suspense regarding his victory in the election...
5. CHAPTER VThe inauguration of James A. Garfield, twentieth President of the United States, on March 4, 1881, was a great pageant, notwithstanding the cold, dismal rain that followed the l...
6. CHAPTER VIVice President Chester A. Arthur was not in Washington at the time of the shooting of President Garfield. He had been to Albany, and was horror stricken upon landing in New York...
7. CHAPTER VIIThe fourth of March, 1885, dawned fair and warm, the finest weather ever known in the history of the city of Washington on Inauguration Day. Cleveland luck had captured the weat...
8. CHAPTER VIIIMarch 4, 1889, found Washington City dismal and bedraggled. Her gay decorations were soggy and discoloured, and under the steady downpour of a heavy rainstorm, driven at times b...
9. CHAPTER IXCleveland luck brought Grover Cleveland back to the White House in March, 1893, to succeed the man who had defeated him at the end of his first term, and whom he had in turn def...
10. CHAPTER XPresident Cleveland drove to the Ebbitt House, where Mr. McKinley was staying, and then together the incoming and the outgoing Presidents rode to the Capitol accompanied by two...
11. CHAPTER XIThe second inauguration of President McKinley was a wretched day, and sleet and snow beat upon him as he took the oath of office. On the way to the Capitol, Senator Mark Hanna r...
12. CHAPTER XIIVice President Theodore Roosevelt was away in the New York mountains with his family on a camping and hunting trip when news reached him of the shooting of President McKinley. H...
13. CHAPTER XIIIRoosevelt’s inauguration on March 4, 1905, was more the inauguration of Theodore Roosevelt, the man, than the installation of a new President of the United States. No President...
14. CHAPTER XIVBecause of the blinding snowstorm, howling winds, and low temperature, Mr. Taft departed from the usual custom of an outdoor ceremony and took the oath of office in the Senate C...
15. CHAPTER XVAfter sixteen years of Republican domination, the Federal government passed into the hands of Democratic rule on March 4, 1913, with the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson of New Je...
16. CHAPTER XVIOn sunday, March 4th, Woodrow Wilson went to the Capitol, and in the President’s room, in the presence of a small group of officials, took again the oath of office, reconsecrati...
17. CHAPTER XVIIThe Hardings went direct to the Willard Hotel upon their arrival in Washington. On the morning of March 4th, President-elect and Mrs. Harding, Vice President-elect and Mrs. Cool...
18. CHAPTER XVIIIThe death of President Harding in San Francisco, coming so swiftly and unexpectedly on the evening of August 2, 1923, at 7:30, stunned all of his immediate party, none more so t...