A Look Back At First Families On Inauguration Day Over The Years
The smiles, the children, the fashions!
by Morgan Brinlee
After being sworn in as president on Jan. 20, 2017, Donald Trump walks in his inauguration parade with his wife Melania and his youngest son Barron. Pool/Getty Images News/Getty Images
President Barack Obama is sworn into office on Jan. 20, 2009, while his family — wife Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia — stands nearby.CHUCK KENNEDY/AFP/Getty Images
President George W. Bush is sworn in for a second term in 2005 as his wife and two daughters look on. Rick Friedman/Corbis Historical/Getty Images
President Bill Clinton embraces his wife, Hillary Clinton, and daughter Chelsea at his second inauguration in January 1997. Scott J. Ferrell/CQ-Roll Call, Inc./Getty Images
President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara Bush, wave to spectators during the 1989 Inauguration Day parade. MPI/Archive Photos/Getty Images
President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy wave to spectators along Pennsylvania Avenue from a limousine during the inaugural parade of 1981.Historical/Corbis Historical/Getty Images
President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, hold the hands of their daughter, Amy, as the trio walks in the 1977 inauguration parade following his swearing-in. Newsday LLC/Newsday/Getty Images
President Gerald Ford and his wife Betty pose with their children — sons Steven, John, and Michael, as well as daughter Susan and daughter-in-law Gayle Ann — in the Oval Office as Ford became the nation's 38th president on Aug. 9, 1974. The White House/Archive Photos/Getty Images
Before being sworn in as the 37th president on Jan. 20, 1969, President Richard Nixon, his wife Pat and daughter Tricia were greeted by President Lyndon B. Johnson.Bettmann/Bettmann/Getty Images
President Lyndon B. Johnson arrives for his inauguration in 1965 alongside his wife Lady Bird Johnson, and daughters Luci Baines and Lynda Bird. Bettmann/Bettmann/Getty Images
President John F. Kennedy walks near the White House with his wife Jacqueline Kennedy after being sworn in as the nation's 35th president on Jan. 20, 1961.Bettmann/Bettmann/Getty Images
President Dwight D. Eisenhower poses with his grandchildren on Inauguration Day for his second term in 1957, alongside his vice president, Richard Nixon, and his daughters Julie and Tricia. Historical/Corbis Historical/Getty Images
A newly inaugurated Franklin D. Roosevelt prepares to enter the White House arm in arm with his wife, Eleanor, and son James on March 4, 1933. Bettmann/Bettmann/Getty Images
Calvin Coolidge's father, John, administered the presidential oath of office to his son at the Coolidge family home on Aug. 3, 1923, following the death of President Warren G. Harding.Bettmann/Bettmann/Getty Images
President Warren G. Harding and his wife Florence Harding — who had no children together — pose for a photograph upon arriving at his inauguration on March 3, 1921. Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty Images
President Woodrow Wilson rides in a parade through Washington, D.C. alongside his second wife, Edith, at his second inauguration in 1917. Hulton Archive/Hulton Archive/Getty Images
President William Howard Taft is driven to his inauguration in a horse-drawn carriage alongside his wife, Helen Herron Taft, on March 4, 1909. MPI/Archive Photos/Getty Images
