US presidential transition meetings through the years – in pictures

The president-elect, Donald Trump, and President Joe Biden talking in the Oval Office of the White House, 13 November 2024

President George W Bush and President-elect Barack Obama meet in the Oval Office, 10 November 2008

President-elect Bill Clinton is greeted by President George Bush at the White House, 18 November 1992

President-elect George Bush and President Ronald Reagan, accompanied by their wives, head for the Oval Office, 9 November 1988

President Jimmy Carter and President-elect Ronald Reagan shake hands in front of their wives on the White House’s South Portico, 20 November 1980

Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon talk in the Oval Office about the transition of power prior to Nixon’s resignation after the Watergate scandal, 9 August 1974

President-elect Richard Nixon and President Lyndon B Johnson confer on the orderly transition of power, 12 December 1968

President Dwight D Eisenhower greets President-elect John F Kennedy on the North Portico of the White House, 6 December 1960

Vice-president Harry S Truman and President Franklin D Roosevelt, 1945. When Roosevelt died in office in 1945, Truman took over

President-elect Franklin D Roosevelt holds a telegram of congratulations from President Herbert Hoover, 8 November 1932. The transition between Hoover and Roosevelt was not a smooth one, with FDR refusing Hoover’s requests for meetings to calm investors amid a financial crisis

President Thomas Woodrow Wilson, left, and his successor, President Warren G Harding, in the back of a carriage on inauguration day, 1921

President William Howard Taft (left) and his successor, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, in Washington, 23 March 1913

An illustration of the former first lady Julia Dent Grant entertaining President Rutherford B Hayes and his wife at a party in the White House after Hayes’s inauguration, 1877