• DomeGuy@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    It was done as a matter of course by essentially every president before Trump. I think the tradition stretches back to Truman, after FDR died in office.

    Biden, Obama, W, Clinton, and HW all did so. Not sure about Regan, whose Alzheimer’s was hidden at the end.