In the 1980s, White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan, CIA Director William Casey, Secretary of the Treasury James Baker and Vice President George H. W. Bush all happened to converge where Teresa Imelda O'Gara was standing. ...more

January 30, 2009

Barack Obama is enjoying about a two-thirds approval rating for his first days as president, a poll released Saturday found. ...more

January 24, 2009

President Barack Obama on Friday quietly ended the Bush administration's ban on giving federal money to international groups that perform abortions or provide information on the option. Liberal groups welcomed the decision, while abortion rights foes criticized the president. ...more

January 23, 2009

A 20-year-old man who shares his name with the 40th President of the United States, an international airport and a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was arrested early Tuesday morning during an undercover drug operation, according to a criminal arrest affidavit. ...more

January 20, 2009

History records that in 1801 when Thomas Jefferson took the oath of office as the nation's third president, he strolled over from a boardinghouse to an unfinished Capitol building. ...more

January 20, 2009

Inaugurations that loom large in history are seen differently at the time. ...more

January 18, 2009

Ken Lucci still gets a kick out of sitting in the same Cadillac stretch limousine where President Ronald Reagan used to sit. ...more

January 17, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) — Exiting the White House after two turbulent terms, President George W. Bush on Thursday said goodbye to the nation by calling the start of Barack Obama's presidency a "moment of hope and pride for our whole nation." ...more

January 15, 2009

Martin Van Buren was the first President who was not born a British subject. Woodrow Wilson's inauguration March 4, 1917 and March 5, 1917 was the first that women participated in the inaugural parade. ...more

January 2, 2009

In the 1980s, White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan, Director of Central Intelligence William Casey, Secretary of the Treasury James Baker and Vice President George H. W. Bush all happened to converge where Teresa Imelda O'Gara was standing. ...more

December 10, 2008