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Federal judge Sarah T. Hughes administering the presidential oath of office to Lyndon B. Johnson following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, November 22, 1963. A newly elected or re-elected president of the United States begins his four-year term of office at noon on the twentieth day of January following the election, and, by tradition, takes the oath of office during an inauguration on ...
On Monday, President Trump used the same Bibles from his inauguration in January 2017: a 1953 Revised Standard Version gifted to him by his mother; and the Lincoln Bible, used by Abraham Lincoln ...
The president can be sworn in on any book that he or she chooses. While the majority of U.S. presidents have chosen Bibles, there have been a handful of exceptions over the years.
Lyndon B. Johnson taking the American presidential oath of office in 1963, after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. An oath of office is an oath or affirmation a person takes before assuming the duties of an office, usually a position in government or within a religious body, although such oaths are sometimes required of officers of other organizations.
A similar Sunday exception and move to Monday is made around this date as well (which happened in 1957, 1985, and 2013). [citation needed] President Reagan being sworn in for his second term "privately" on television, January 20, 1985. This resulted in several anomalies.
On Monday, President Trump used the same Bibles from his inauguration in January 2017: a 1953 Revised Standard Version gifted to him by his mother; and the Lincoln Bible, used by Abraham Lincoln ...
After Vice President JD Vance delivered his oath of office, Trump and his wife walked up to Roberts so the president could be sworn in. The president, however, forgot to place his hand on the ...
The inauguration of John Quincy Adams as the sixth president of the United States took place on Friday, March 4, 1825, in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. The inauguration marked the commencement of the only four-year term of John Quincy Adams as president and the first term of John C. Calhoun as vice president.