Well, if you wanted to see the spot where the very first president of the United States was inaugurated, you have to travel a couple hundred miles north of Washington DC. George Washington actually took his first oath of office as president in lower Manhattan on Wall Street in a spot that is now commemorated for that historic moment. For what turned out to be a brief shining moment, New York City was the first capital of the United States of America for a little over a year. George Washington lived then not ...