Other Nixon men were vowing “Never again ... the participants were still recuperating from a tribal ritual called the Inaugural Ball, a six-part exercise in indignity and immobility ...

Vice President-elect Andrew Johnson was drunk ... Later that day, an angry rooster found its way into Nixon’s inaugural ball, which was held in the Smithsonian Museum of History and Technology.

In 2005, Laura Bush wore a silver gown outlined with Austrian crystals by Oscar de la Renta. First lady Michelle Obama kept her dress choice a secret from both the press and the gown's designer ...

Debutantes throughout the past six decades have included Patricia Nixon and Julie Nixon Eisenhower ... WWD covered the inaugural ball held at The Plaza hotel in New York. An article in the ...

That’s how former President Jimmy Carter ... Kennerly’s first “proper” inauguration, he said. A few years before that, he was taking photos when Nixon resigned and Ford took over.