When the former president George H Bush returned there from his eldest son's inauguration in 2001 the first thing he did, according to a memoir by George W Bush published this week, was head upstairs to the residence for a bath.
After the inauguration of the First Empire, Napoleon in 1806 ordered the triumphal arches of the Carrousel and of the Étoile to be erected.
Mrs. Garfield was the first President's mother to attend her son's inauguration, & the first to live in the White House.
The inauguration of the first work-training center in this remote Patagonian hamlet was a case in point, a significant but awkward event.
When Jim Hogg was elected the first native-born Governor of Texas four years later, Ima accompanied her mother and elder brother to the swearing-in ceremony and inauguration ball in January 1891, thus witnessing the first inauguration in the newly erected Texas State Capitol.
Mr. Washington's powers remained limited by Congress, and at the time of his mayoral inauguration, the first in the District of Columbia since 1871, he noted that the city still lacked representation in Congress, which still controlled its finances.
As 2012 draws to a close, and our progressive African-American president and the country looks in anticipation to the inauguration in January 2013 of the second time an African American takes the presidential oath of office we have the opportunity for more cross-boundary and transformative reform action.
Last week the San Francisco Girls Chorus (which, alongside the San Francisco Boys Chorus, performed at President Obama's inauguration in 2009) became the first American vocal ensemble to win a place in the finals of "Let the Peoples Sing," a prestigious international choral competition organized by the European Broadcasting Union.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt famously said at his first inauguration, in the depths of the Depression in 1933, that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance".
George Washington's inauguration in 1789 was the first such parade.
