Trump Thanks Biden for ‘Smooth Transition’ in White House Meeting

Washington, DC 11/13/24 -- Biden, Trump to meet at the White House for transition talks.

The peaceful transition of power from one president to another does not mandate the outgoing president to invite their successor to a face-to-face meeting at the White House before Inauguration Day.

But, it has been a tradition for over a century that shows almost a symbolic "passing of the baton."

"The psychological transfer occurs then," former Vice President Walter Mondale once said.

George Washington didn’t have a formal meeting before John Adams took over the then-capital city of New York.

But in 1841, President Van Buren hosted President-elect William Henry Harrison for a dinner at the White House.

More recently, Republican George W. Bush welcomed Obama to the White House in 2008 after calling the election of the nation's first Black president a "triumph of the American story."

And eight years prior, Bush himself was the newcomer when he met with the outgoing Clinton, who had denied his father a second term.

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