The 1963 law governing presidential transitions was amended in 1988 to provide some public money.

He risks nothing, however, by taking the global stage during the American Presidential transition.

"There aren't a lot of Democrats around who have any practice in Presidential transitions, so they're having to make it up as they go along."

Of course background checks don't intrude only during presidential transitions.

Given recent history, this is a small miracle: every presidential transition in the last two decades has been scarred by an economic crisis.

She held the same job through the 1992 Clinton-Gore campaign and the presidential transition.

That he could do so, with no particular difficulty, on the eve of the nation's most unusual presidential transition, was illustrative.

American presidential transitions are always beautiful tableaux of near regal courtesy.

So far, this has tinged just about every aspect of the stagecraft that is the presidential transition.

Because the economy has momentum, it's useful to look carefully at the trends in evidence at the time of presidential transitions.