The inauguration is really about swearing in the next president, but first ladies throughout history have stolen the show with their inaugural gowns.

Herbert Hoover is remembered at "the great humanitarian." Hoover took office in 1929, just months before the Great Depressions began in the United States.

Folder 7 Herbert Hoover Inaugural Medal, 1976-1977. Contains correspondence with the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, concerning borrowing a 1929 Hoover gold inaugural medal.

President Herbert Hoover remains the only U.S. president to have been born in Iowa. On Aug. 10, his hometown will celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth with Hoover's Hometown Days.

1933: Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt Like Bush, Hoover would attend just one inauguration as a new president before losing to a Democrat four years later.

Originally, Inauguration Day took place in a completely different month. Here's when and why it changed. Even though we vote in November, the newly elected president and other politicians don’t ...

Herbert Hoover said that the policies he listed in his 1929 address would be tested against the “ideals and aspirations of America.” Even William Howard Taft, whose 1909 inaugural was among the most ...

Several inaugurations have left a newly minted president drenched. President Herbert Hoover's inauguration was met with a downpour of rain, a possible bad omen of things to come.

Several inaugurations have left a newly minted president drenched. President Herbert Hoover's inauguration was met with a downpour of rain, a possible bad omen of things to come.

Several inaugurations have left a newly minted president drenched. President Herbert Hoover's inauguration was met with a downpour of rain, a possible bad omen of things to come.