Jill Biden is still hurt by Nancy Pelosi’s vote of no confidence in her husband’s reelection. “I’ve been thinking a lot about relationships,” the first lady said in an interview with The Washington Post published Wednesday. “It’s been on my mind a lot lately, and we were friends for 50 years,” she said of Pelosi. “It was disappointing.”
British guitarist John Sykes, best known for his work with rock bands Thin Lizzy and Whitesnake, has died aged 65 “after a hard fought battle with cancer.”
Military service has not done much if anything for Democrats—Clinton won the nomination against two primary opponents, Bob Kerrey and Doug Wilder, with heroic war records. And then he won the presidency against George H.W. Bush, who enlisted at 18 and survived two close calls in World War II.
Eleanor Roosevelt posing in the Sally Milgrim gown that she wore to her husband Franklin’s second inaugural festivities in 1937.
For context, in 2016, then-Vice President Biden and his wife Jill hosted the Pences at their Northwest Washington residence shortly after the election. Harris postponed moving into the Naval Observatory residence until April 2021—approximately three months after her inauguration—because the property required repairs.
The brief interactions between the former presidents and their spouses who assembled for the state funeral of Jimmy Carter might well be sorted into two categories: those who reflect a
As President Joe Biden was making one final lap around town this week, delivering farewell speeches to his diplomatic corps, military leaders and the nation at large, his appearances belied a grim reality: This is not how he’d hoped his half-century career in Washington would end.
Jimmy Carter nodded politely toward Ronald Reagan at the Republican's inauguration. Richard Nixon clasped John F. Kennedy’s hand and offered the new Democratic president a word of
JD Vance, 40, is making history as the second-youngest vice president in American history — and leaving behind his sprawling Cincinnati digs to do it. The Ohio native is trading his five-bedroom, 4.5-bath,
After Michelle Obama was missing during Jimmy Carter’s funeral Jan. 7, the former First Lady and Barack Obama’s wife will also not attend Donald Trump’s Jan. 20 inauguration.
Biden may still have hopes of snagging a Nobel as he has been testily trying to take credit for this past week’s breakthrough on the Israel-Hamas war that will see the second swap of hostages and prisoners starting Sunday and the resumption of aid supplies to Gaza.
From Eleanor Roosevelt to Jill Biden, first ladies have often made statements through what they wore on Inauguration Day and to the inaugural balls.