John Ratcliffe was director of national intelligence during Trump's first term and is the first person to have held that position and the top post at the CIA.

Robert Lighthizer, the former U.S. Trade Representative, lost his bid to rejoin the White House, but he still believes the President’s protectionist instincts can jump-start American manufacturing.

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Trump and incoming first lady Melania Trump will then go to the White House and join President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden for a tea before they travel to the U.S. Capitol for the inauguration ceremony. Vance will go first, and then at noon Trump will take his oath of office, The New York Times reported.

Early tomorrow morning, Donald Trump will take his second oath of office to become president again.Trump is only the second president to be elected to two non-consecutive terms, and he'll be the first in 40 years to be inaugurated indoors,

From historic Bibles to the leading role of the country's chief justice, Inauguration Day has been filled with traditions. Which ones have endured?

On March 4, 1841, William Henry Harrison delivered what is the longest inaugural address in United States history, both in terms of its word count and length of time. His speech consisted of a whopping 8,445 words — over 3,000 more than the next-longest inaugural address, from William Howard Taft — and lasted 1 hour and 40 minutes.

In 1909, William Taft took the oath of office inside the Senate chamber after a blizzard dropped nearly 10 inches of snow on D.C. But the parade was held outdoors, featuring 20,000 marchers. “I always knew it would be a cold day in hell when I became president,” Taft quipped at the time, according to the Washington Post.

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(WASHINGTON) — The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead America's premier spy agency and his second nominee to win Senate approval.