President Trump delivering his inauguration address to a packed Capitol Rotunda. (julia demaree nikhinson/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images) President Trump’s inaugural address offered a ...

I am certain that my fellow Americans expect that on my induction into the Presidency I will address them with a candor and a decision which the present situation of our Nation impels. This is ...

Frederick Douglass called it "a sacred effort," and Lincoln himself thought that his Second Inaugural, which offered a theodicy of the Civil War, was better than the Gettysburg Address.

But Reagan started a new tradition: his inauguration-year speech to Congress explicitly was not a State of the Union address. Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack ...

All dreaded it, all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, urgent agents were in the city seeking ...

Mr. Thompson said he was fine with the president listing his accomplishments in the first six weeks of his second term, much of it an echo of the promises made in his inauguration speech in January.

Partisan divisions were on display as Republican lawmakers gave Trump frequent standing ovations, while Democrats sat stone faced, held signs and walked out of the chamber in protest.

President Trump could speak for well over an hour when he addresses lawmakers in the Capitol on Tuesday, with a betting line set at one hour and 24.5 minutes, as he seeks to tout his recent ...

Judging by his past speeches to Congress, President Donald Trump once felt the need to ask lawmakers to pass his agenda.

Elon Musk’s alleged Nazi salute at President Donald Trump’s inauguration has sparked debates over his true intentions and its ...