George Washington’s 1789 inauguration suit coat is now on display at Mount Vernon. Our first President was intentional with ...

The suit had gilt buttons with an eagle insignia ... He then intoned: “Long live George Washington, president of the United States.” The spectators responded with huzzahs and chants of ...

Radio broadcast of President Coolidge's Washington's Birth day address to members of Congress. By this speech the country received a new George Washington. A vague Mt. Vernon became the scene of a ...

Ever since George Washington became President in 1789, the presidency has been a major focus of American political life, and as with nearly everything associated with that office, presidential ...

Washington won the presidency by unanimous electoral vote in both 1788 and in 1792. Challenges Upon his inauguration as the first president on April 30, 1789, George Washington assumed office under ...

ATLANTA — Only one person in U.S. history has defied the two-term example set by the first president, George Washington. And voters responded by forbidding future presidents from being elected ...

When George Washington was president, he understood the power of being first. His statement that “I walk on untrodden ground” recognized that, in the words of his biographer Joseph Ellis ...