President Dwight D ... father on Pennsylvania Avenue to observe the tail-end of Harry S. Truman’s Jan. 20, 1949, inaugural parade. That rite of passage seems to have been with me all my life.

Hargrove was the mastermind behind decades of inaugural floats, from President Truman to Obama. A nod to that history can be found at the American Celebration on Parade Museum, located at ...

Carter wrote in his diary that by walking during the inaugural parade he wished ... radios to hear President Calvin Coolidge take the oath of office. President Harry Truman became the first ...

Harry Truman’s 1949 inauguration was the first to be televised ... Jimmy Carter was the first president to exit the motorcade car and walk the parade down Pennsylvania Avenue from the Capitol to the ...

Interestingly, Roosevelt's fourth inaugural in 1945 was held outside at the White House with no parade due ... such as a president's death. For instance, President Harry Truman was sworn in ...

The first Inauguration Day was on April 30, 1789, when George Washington took the oath of office in New York City as the first president of ... swearing-in ceremony, a parade, and various ...