The Navy will name two future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers for former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

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But then he added, “Nobody’s done that ever.” That’s false; Republican presidential candidates Richard Nixon (1972), Ronald ...

Two new aircraft carriers are being named after Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, continuing the Navy convention of naming ...

The most famous example is Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon, who never fully acknowledged his role in Watergate. Then there was George H.W. Bush’s decision to pardon Casper Weinberger ...

The U.S. has a long tradition of defeated presidential candidates sharing the inauguration stage with the people who defeated ...

The worst weather for an inaugural came in March 1909, when 10 inches of snow forced William H. Taft to move indoors to be ...

Presidents have pardon power -- that's in the Constitution, columnist Ron Faucheux notes. But there are some steps to take ...

Self-described dirty trickster Roger J. Stone Jr emerged on the American political scene during the 1972 re-election campaign ...

Ahead of Donald Trump's second inauguration, take a look back at the transition of presidential power throughout U.S. history ...