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

Herbert Hoover gave the first multimedia inaugural. His 1929 address was the first recorded on a talking newsreel. "It is a dedication and consecration under God to the highest office in service ...

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. But Democrat Franklin Roosevelt ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump outlined his vision for his second presidential term Monday in the longest inaugural speech by word count since Herbert Hoover’s address in 1929. However, Trump’s 2,885-word ...

President Herbert Hoover's inauguration was met with a downpour of rain, a possible bad omen of things to come. "A heavy rain began just before the oath of office was administered, and the Capitol ...

The Hoovers lived in the white-painted residence in 1902 while the future president worked for a London mining company ...

Lou Henry Hoover wore a velvet dress with a zig-zag pattern to Herbert Hoover's inauguration. In May 1929, she became the first first lady to appear in Vogue, Katherine A.S. Sibley wrote in "A ...