The US Army Band Brass Quintet played as people awaited the casket. Silence fell as three knocks on the rotunda door marked ...

Andrew Johnson grew ... of unity during the war, Abraham Lincoln persuaded Republican delegates to make Johnson, a Democrat, his running mate. Johnson became president on April 15, 1865—three ...

To paint the parallel, of all presidents, Trump most resembles Andrew Johnson ... Naming the Tennessee senator as vice president was Abraham Lincoln’s worst mistake, but he never lived to ...

Mr Carter, who died December 29 at the age of 100, will then lie in state on Tuesday night and again on Wednesday. He ...

Carter is the 13th former US president to lie in state in the Capitol. Abraham Lincoln, assassinated in 1865, was the first.

On Nov. 13, President Biden welcomed Donald Trump to the White House, marking the resumption of a longstanding practice. There was no White House meeting after Biden defeated Trump in 2020.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation's capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president ...

The 39th president ... Abraham Lincoln’s remains in 1865. The ceremony will feature eulogies from Vice President Kamala Harris, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, and House Speaker Mike Johnson.

On Nov. 13, President Biden welcomed Donald Trump to the White House, marking the resumption of a longstanding practice. There was no White House meeting after Biden defeated Trump in 2020. Before an ...

Nearly 44 years after Jimmy Carter left the nation’s capital in humbling defeat, the 39th president returned to Washington for three days of state funeral rites starting Tuesday. Carter’s ...

But with the murder of Abraham Lincoln, the presidency fell to the hands of Vice President Andrew Johnson, a Tennessean whose chief aspiration was to make peace with the defeated Confederates and ...