President Trump addressed a joint session of Congress for the first time since retaking office, telling lawmakers and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A new president's first speech to Congress is not designated a State of the Union address, coming so close to the Jan. 20 inauguration. But it serves the same purpose, offering an annual accounting of ...

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 ...

Presidents generally deliver high-profile speeches to Congress shortly after their inauguration, and the distinction may make little difference. By Matthew Mpoke Bigg President Trump’s address ...

The future Queen, Princess Kate, has conducted hundreds of engagements over the years and has grown in confidence, but she ...

Gone were the appeals to “all Americans” that had punctuated the same post-inauguration speech in 2017. His first attack on Democrats was scripted and came at the top of his remarks – the ...