House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday ordered that flags at the U.S. Capitol be raised to their full height on Inauguration Day, pausing a 30-day flag-lowering order following the death of former ...

Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865, and Johnson assumed the presidency. Ulysses S. Grant’s first inaugural ball in 1869 ended in upper-class chaos. The workers running the coat-check ...

Mike Johnson. Days before the inaugural ball, tickets were sold out at tiers of $2,500 and $5,000, with ultra-exclusive packages that included $100,000 VIP tickets and private dinners priced at $1 ...