The U.S. has a long tradition of defeated presidential candidates sharing the inauguration stage with the people who defeated them, projecting to the world the orderly transfer of power. It's a practice that Vice President Kamala Harris will resume on Jan. 20 after an eight-year hiatus.

Twenty years earlier, after a much closer race, Republican Richard Nixon clasped John F ... He would attend again in 1993 in defeat. He joined Bill Clinton, the Democrat who beat him, on the ...