On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States. Since Washington took his oath of office, Inauguration Day has continued to be an ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Recall Donald Trump after his first term as President when discussing ... just putting himself on par with Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, but surpassing ...

George Washington University, a private institution, has been offering online bachelor's degree programs since before 2000-2001. All of the online classes are recorded and archived so students can ...

Inside it, National Park Ranger Ryan Ventura says is the actual stone where George Washington stood to take the oath of office to become president of the United States back on April 30 ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes resigned from The Washington Post after an editor killed a cartoon ...

And before all that, there was the unexpectedly elegant, mid-thigh-length brown coat George Washington wore to his inauguration as the nation’s first president on April 30, 1789, at Federal Hall ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Instead of incarceration it was inauguration for Donald Trump, the first felon to be sworn in as President of ... out that paintings of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson ...

From left to right: Henry Knox, Thomas Jefferson, Edmond Randolph, Alexander Hamilton, and President George Washington. (Getty Images) The president was originally a secondary figure in government ...

Every week, The Post runs a collection of letters of readers’ grievances — pointing out grammatical mistakes, missing coverage and inconsistencies. These letters tell us what we did wrong and, ...

The only constitutionally mandated event on Inauguration Day is for the president-elect to take the oath of office. But on the first Inauguration Day, in 1789, George Washington did something else.

Susannah George is The Washington Post's Gulf bureau chief, based in Dubai, where she leads coverage of the oil-rich monarchies of the Persian Gulf and their neighbor, Iran. She previously spent ...