Presidential elections and transfers of power

There are smiles all around as President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon acknowledge cheers of Republicans at election headquarters early November 7, 1956, as their bouquet-holding wives stand beside them. The Eisenhowers and the Nixons went before a jubilant crowd shortly after Adlai St…

Presidential elections and transfers of power

William Howard Taft, is shown campaigning at Trenton, N. J. in 1912. (AP Photo)

Presidential elections and transfers of power

This general view shows the second inauguration of President Woodrow Wilson as he delivers his inaugural address on the East Portico of the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., on March 5, 1917. (AP Photo)

Presidential elections and transfers of power

President Warren G. Harding throws out the first ball to open the Washington Senators' baseball season, c. 1921. (AP Photo)

Presidential elections and transfers of power

U.S. President Calvin Coolidge, right foreground, and first lady Grace Coolidge, left, attend the viewing for the late President Warren G. Harding, lying in state, in Washington, D.C., in August 1923. Harding died of a heart attack while in San Francisco, Ca., on Aug. 2. (AP Photo)

Images from past presidential debates

President George Bush and Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton meet Oct.11,1992, prior to their debate in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)

Images from past presidential debates

Knox College displays its banner supporting Abraham Lincoln as he speaks before a crowd during his fifth debate with Sen. Stephen A. Douglas in Galesburg, Ill., on Oct. 7, 1858. Artist Victor Perard drew this sketch of Old Main, the central building on the Knox College campus. These debates …

Images from past presidential debates

Presidential candidates Sen. John F. Kennedy, left, and Vice President Richard M. Nixon are shown following their nationally televised first of four presidential debates at a television studio in Chicago, Ill., Sept. 26, 1960. This was the first ever televised presidential debate. According …

Democratic National Conventions: A look back

Hubert H. Humphrey tells the Democratic National Convention Aug. 29,1968 he accepts the party's nomination as its candidate for President. (AP Photo)

Democratic National Conventions: A look back

Sen. George S. McGovern and his running mate, Thomas F. Eagleton, hold hands aloft with the Democratic standard bearers in 1968, Sen. Hubert Humphrey and Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, before delegates to the Democratic National Convention in its final session, on July 13, 1972, in Miami Beach, Flor…

Democratic National Conventions: A look back

Sen. John F. Kennedy tells Democratic convention delegates, "we will carry the fight to the people in the fall and we shall win," during a brief appearance on the rostrum of the Los Angeles Sports Arena where he was nominated as the party's presidential candidate, July 14, 1960. Standing bes…

Democratic National Conventions: A look back

Sen. John F. Kennedy makes his way through a crowd of supporters and journalists as he arrives in Los Angeles, July 9, 1960 for the Democratic National Convention. (AP Photo)

Republican National Conventions: A look back

Moments before a night session of the Republican National Convention in Chicago, July 8, 1952, the seats of New York delegates were covered with "Ike" straw hats. Although not a straw vote, as one observer joked, Eisenhower was nominated at the convention and went on to defeat Adlai Stevenso…