Former Assistant Secretary of State Robert Charles revisits the inaugural messages of Ronald Reagan, Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy on Trump's inauguration day.

The rug, which was in place during Ronald Reagan’s administration and during Trump’s first term, was reinstalled during Trump’s inauguration ceremony, according to CBS News. The Resolute Desk had to be partially disassembled in order to facilitate its return.

The presidential inauguration ceremony will take place on what could be the coldest inauguration day since 1985.

In January 1981, Jimmy Carter nodded politely toward Ronald Reagan as the new Republican ... 1933: Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt Like Bush, Hoover would attend just one inauguration ...

The party has continually found rhetoric to suggest poor people are to blame for each new crisis. When the Tea Party took over the GOP, a key frustration was that “taxpayers” were supporting a population of the unworthy. Mitt Romney almost rode a similar “ 47 percent ” sentiment to the White House.

By revoking Executive Order 11246, Donald Trump has erased key civil rights protections for federal contractors.

Every president strives to create a legacy that will be part of the headline in their obituary. They crave policy achievements or a foreign triumph with which their name will

Donald Trump restores Diet Coke button to Oval Office – and other strange habits of US presidents - The soft drink hotline was said to be back in place even before inauguration day was over

More concerned with the action itself than with the theory behind it,’ Torres was relieved of his orders in 1965, after which he took up arms with the National Liberation Army, a Marxist-Leninist guerilla group.

No one should underestimate how serious Trump is about his policies. But nor should we understand him to be morally serious.

President Woodrow Wilson facilitated the segregation of a diverse federal workforce, where Black and White professionals had been working together for years.

Trump’s “America First” philosophy is often described as a return to the kind of isolationism that prevailed between the two world wars. But that’s not quite accurate. He wants to stride the global stage. But he’s advocating a foreign policy where America is dominant in its own hemisphere and engages elsewhere selectively.