White House Historical Association Chief Education Officer Matthew Costello talked about the Constitutional foundations of the American presidency.

When the US Constitution was written, many people − from those who wrote the document to those on the outside who read it − believed that endowing the president with kinglike powers was dangerous.

But it does make this figure the sole “Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States ... faith in their first president, the upstanding George Washington, helped convince them ...

Something I’m sure New Yorker Donald Trump knows is that following his April 1789 inauguration, President George Washington occupied two private houses in New York City but no US President would ...

Early in his speech, Trump compared himself to George Washington, the first person to hold the office of the President of the United States. "It has been stated by many that the first month of our ...