• Inauguration

    2013 Presidential Inauguration

    District of Columbia

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Did You Know?

President George Washington

The first Inauguration of George Washington took place in what was then the capital of the country, New York City, on April 30, 1789.  Many of today's Inaugural traditions trace their origin to the precedents that Washington established.