The Inauguration Eve concert ... was relieved of his interim role as presidential successor. At 12:03, Lyndon Johnson took his place before Chief Justice Earl Warren. Across the Potomac, cannon ...

Lyndon Johnson was poised for the biggest day of his life, his first pomp-and-ceremonial inauguration. The event would be all the more stirring because of the jarring contrast with his first ...

Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965 Inaugural Address “When we listen to ‘the better angels of our nature,’ we find that they celebrate the simple things, the basic things — such as goodness ...

Kennedy’s “Ask not what your country can do for you” address of 1961 is one of the most famous inaugural speeches in history. But it had its share of glitches. Lyndon B. Johnson bungled his ...

Every president since Lyndon Johnson has chosen the same model of microphone. It's also the choice of many musicians, both in ...

John Quincy Adams used a law text for his 1825 inauguration. And, sworn in aboard Air Force One after John Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson used a Catholic missal. Trump used ...

Lyndon Johnson became president on Air Force One ... Capitol building since Ronald Reagan's first in 1981 -- his second inauguration in 1985 was held inside the Capitol building due to inclement ...

Since inauguration ceremonies were moved permanently ... Finally, it was 68 degrees in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963 — when Lyndon B. Johnson took the oath aboard Air Force One following Kennedy ...

17. The Bible is not always used when swearing in presidents during their inauguration. John Quincy Adams and Franklin Pierce used law books, Lyndon Johnson used a Catholic missal, and Theodore ...