President Trump’s redecorated Oval Office includes a portrait of Benjamin Franklin and a fresh Andrew Jackson painting, part of an Inauguration Day overhaul of the most exclusive office space in America.
Every president since Ronald Reagan has left a note for his successor, and President Biden could be the first to write a letter to someone who is both his successor and the predecessor who left a note for him.
This will mark the first time that a president who has received a letter from an outgoing president may well be writing a letter to the same person who's the incoming president'
The new president was prompted to search for the letter as he casually took questions from reporters in the Oval Office.
As he sat down to sign a fresh round of executive orders Trump joked with reporters, opining on everything from foreign policy to drones to the way he’s redecorated the Oval Office.
The US Constitution grants presidents with the authority of executive clemency for individuals convicted in federal criminal cases.
Before he leaves office for the final time, President Joe Biden plans to pen President-elect Donald Trump a letter, CNN is told.
A longtime enthusiast of political tradition, Biden could well embrace membership in the ex-presidents club. The former commanders in chief from time to time pose for pictures and pat one another on the back while milling around at historic events — and sit together at VIP funerals.
As President Joe Biden prepared to pass the baton to President-elect Donald Trump, he followed the tradition of leaving his successor a note.
Biden leaves behind a complicated legacy of legislative wins and economic gains, along with a trail of fractured relationships and grievances within his own party.
WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden will deliver a farewell address to the nation Wednesday night, seizing what may be his final opportunity to reshape Americans' grim views on his term before he departs the White House.
The spectacle in Washington this week was extraordinary — a deceased president and a revived president at opposite ends of the moral scale. Here was Carter, the righteous, ascending to heaven, as Donald Trump, the felonious, ascended again to the Oval Office. Carter’s passion for honesty was as ingrained as Trump’s addiction to lying.