President Barack Obama
On the night of November 4, 2008, tens of thousands of people gathered in Chicago’s Grant Park, their breath visible in the crisp autumn air, united by a shared moment of history. Barack Obama—son…
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President George W Bush
George W. Bush had been President of the United States for less than a year when the course of his tenure was transformed in a single morning. On September 11, 2001, as the sun…
President Bill Clinton
On a humid August night in 1963, a teenage boy from Hope, Arkansas, stood in the East Room of the White House and shook hands with the President of the United States. John F.…
President Ronald Reagan
On a cold January afternoon in 1981, as the temperature hovered below freezing and a sharp winter wind cut across the National Mall, millions of Americans watched a moment that felt like the breaking…
President Jimmy Carter
On a warm January afternoon in 1977, as the inaugural procession wound slowly along Pennsylvania Avenue, a new president broke with decades of tradition. Instead of riding in the armored limousine provided for him,…
President Gerald Ford
On an August morning in 1974, as the aftershocks of Watergate still rattled Washington, a tall, athletic man with sandy hair and a steady, almost boyish face walked up the center aisle of the…
President Joseph R. Biden Jr
On a chilly January afternoon in 2021, amidst profound national turmoil, Joseph R. Biden Jr. stood on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol, placed his hand on a hefty family Bible held by…
President Donald J Trump
On the evening of November 8, 2016, Americans and the world looked on in astonishment as the election results defied almost all expectations. Donald J. Trump—a billionaire real estate mogul and reality television star…
President Harry S. Truman
On an April evening in 1945, a clerk from the White House hurried up the marble stairs of the Capitol and down a dim corridor toward the office of the vice president. Inside, Harry…
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
On a gray March afternoon in 1933, as a cold rain fell on Washington and banks failed across the country in a kind of slow-motion collapse, Franklin Delano Roosevelt rode in an open car…