When the last time a President of the United States decided not to assist in the trial of his successor

Donald Trump announced this year that he will not be attending the mandate transfer ceremony to his successor, Joe Biden, next year’s 20 in the Capitol’s escalators. His decision was not taken in the context of the suicides in the last weeks of the election in which the president would say that there was no fraud and robbery in Victoria, although he was not allowed to testify respectfully. Without embarrassment, however, Trump is boasting about a long-standing tradition (and of the most established democracies) in which the willing mandates participate in his successor’s act, even if he does not sympathize with his political ideas.

Asia and all, will not be the first time in the history of the United States.

The ultimate president who does not assist in the jurisdiction of his suitor Richard Nixon in 1974, albeit in particularly traumatic circumstances: acababa to present his resignation at the Watergate scandal and his deputy Gerald Ford took charge of the presidency in a fast-moving ceremony in the salon Este of the Casa Blanca, when Nixon and his wife died .

In reality, to find a more anticipated antecedent of Trump and Biden, he recalled 152 years.

Founded in 1869, when the Democrat Andrew Johnson decided not to assist in the trial of the incoming president, Republican Ulysses S. Grant.

Although the decision has been made at the very least, it has a long history of disputes between employees.

Johnson, Vice President of Abraham Lincoln, took over the power of attorney on April 14, 1865. His racist visions led him to spend more time with Grant, who is currently conducting the trial. It may be that Johnson’s quarreled over the War Secretary, who opposed Grant’s support.

Johson fue the first president that debió atravesar a litigation process in Congress, which accounts for Grant’s enthusiastic support.

Grant ran for Republican candidate in 1968 and won unopposed elections in which Johnson did not appear to be running for office. The President salutes and enters see detestaban, summarized by Ronald Shafer in the Washington Post, because what we are living from series completes the mandate transfer ceremony.

Grant advises that she refuses to share a car with Johnson in the tray between the White House and the Capitol, as she is still at that time.

The minutes of the protocol indicate that each of them has an Irish proposal in its carriage. Speaking to the Secretary of the Marina, Gideon Wells, the appearance that Grant’s pedigree had been on the offensive, and in a cabinet meeting at the beginning of 1869 he suggested to Jackson that he should not attend the ceremony scheduled for the 4th of March. Había dos antecedentes, algo lejanos y cuando la ceremoni de traspaso aún no tenien el symbolic peso que acquisition de John Adams married Washington in 1801, an antes de la asunción de su sucesor, Thoma Jefferson; and his wife, John Quincy Adams, married him in 1829, before assuming Andrew Jackson.

Johnson did not leave the proposal with enthusiasm. During the following weeks, the Mayor of his cabinet agrees that the most appropriate will be part of the ceremony, which requires a symbolic weight for the state democracy.

But when the month of March 4, the officials commenced to read at the White House, the president surprises the most who are working hard and ending the issues of the last moment.

What are you talking about right now is what Johnson sent the car the day before a card to Grant, who will eventually share the carriage during the ceremony. But there is no answer.

When the carriages took place at Grant’s comedy in the Casa Blanca with a vacation car to get to Johnson, nadie salió del edificio. Aguardaron some minutes in vano, until you decide to close the truck haci el Capitolio sin el presidente saliente.

While Grant was a member of Congress, Johnson agreed to work and make some decrees, saluting all the staff of the Tennessee residence and party.

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