Richard Nixon was inaugurated in 1973 under lowered flags due to the death of Truman, who had died less than a month before. In the event, on Trump's Inauguration Day, some flags were raised to ...

With the inauguration on Jan. 20 ... The hiatus only lasted a day, and flags went back to half-staff thereafter for eight days. Flags had also been at half-staff when Nixon was sworn in for ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday ordered that flags at the U.S. Capitol be raised to their full height on Inauguration Day, pausing a 30-day flag-lowering order following the death of former ...

Greg Abbott announced on Monday he will order flags outside all state buildings to be at full staff on Jan. 20 in honor of Inauguration Day, according to a news release from the governor's office.

He had complained that flags would be at half-staff on his inauguration day because of a proclamation by former President Joe Biden to honor Jimmy Carter for a month following his death on Dec. 29.

However, one detail about Inauguration Day has been causing debate among Congress and state leaders, and that is whether the American flag will be raised. According to the U.S. Flag Code ...

“The Democrats are all ‘giddy’ about our magnificent American Flag potentially being at ‘half mast’ during my Inauguration ... of 30 days from the day of his death.” ...