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This impeached, one-term president refused to go to his successor s inauguration. Now Trump will do the same.
Ronald G. Shafer, The Washington Post
Jan. 8, 2021
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The peeved president decided to skip his successor s inauguration ceremony.
The year was 1869, and the president was Andrew Johnson, who detested incoming President Ulysses S. Grant. The feeling was mutual. Grant refused to ride in the same carriage with Johnson to the Capitol.
Now the country faces a much uglier transfer of power between President Donald Trump, who maintains the election was stolen from him, and Joe Biden.
On Thursday night, as calls grew for his removal from office in the wake of a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters, Trump finally acknowledged there will be a new president on Jan. 20 and pledged a smooth, orderly, seamless transition of power.
This impeached, one-term president refused to go to his successor’s inauguration. Now Trump will do the same. Ronald G. Shafer The peeved president decided to skip his successor’s inauguration ceremony. The year was 1869, and the president was Andrew Johnson, who detested incoming President Ulysses S. Grant. The feeling was mutual. Grant refused to ride in the same carriage with Johnson to the Capitol. Now the country faces a much uglier transfer of power between President Trump, who maintains the election was stolen from him, and Joe Biden. On Thursday night, as calls grew for his removal from office in the wake of a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters, Trump finally acknowledged there will be a new president on Jan. 20 and pledged a “smooth, orderly, seamless transition of power.”
Inauguration: Andrew Johnson refused to attend Grant s Now Trump will do the same to Biden washingtonpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.