Monday’s change of Oval Office occupants is a ritual full of traditions and customs. One of the more modern ones began in ...

as press secretary to George H.W. Bush, he came up with the term “voodoo economics” to knock the supply-side agenda of Bush’s then-rival Ronald Reagan, died Nov. 29 at a hospital in Washington.

As President Joe Biden prepared to pass the baton to President-elect Donald Trump, he followed the tradition of leaving his ...

A look at the history of presidential letters and whether President Biden will continue the tradition by writing a note for ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ronald Reagan probably didn’t realize he was starting a tradition when he wrote a note congratulating his successor and left it in the Oval Office desk drawer after two terms as ...

Reagan started the tradition in 1989 when he left a letter for his successor, his own Vice President George H.W. Bush. Since Bush, each handover has been from a member of one party to the other.

Every president since Ronald Reagan has left a note for his successor, and President Joe Biden could be the first to write a letter to someone who is both his successor and the predecessor who left a ...