President Joe Biden claimed in a December interview that President-elect Donald Trump is “the only president to ever avoid an inauguration.” Verdict: False Presidents John Adams, John Quincy Adams, ...
Though President-Elect Donald Trump will avoid serving time, he may become the first convicted felon to take the oath of office. Meanwhile, Trump has threatened to pardon all, if not most, of the ...
His father’s death when the boy was three left the family in poverty. From age fourteen to age seventeen, young Johnson was apprenticed to a tailor. He then moved with his mother and stepfather ...
Only three of his predecessors underwent similar proceedings: Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton, who were acquitted after trials in the Senate; and Richard Nixon, who resigned to avoid being ...
President Biden claimed Trump is the only president to avoid his successor’s inauguration. But several outgoing presidents in history have skipped the ceremony.
Andrew Johnson grew up poor in Raleigh, North Carolina. At 14, he was indentured to a tailor but ran away, ending up in Greeneville, Tennessee, where he caught the eye of Eliza McCardle.