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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...