Kevin Butterfield is director of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. The Constitution is remarkably ...
On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States. Since ...
According to the U.S. Department of State, in 1789 George Washington began the tradition of taking the oath with a hand on ...
George Washington was sworn in at New York City's Federal Hall ... It specified that the terms of president and vice ...
Some presidents did not use a Bible to take the oath of office, including Theodore Roosevelt, who did not use anything when he was sworn into office in 1901, and John Quincy Adams, who chose a legal ...
The swearing-in of a new president is one of the most treasured rituals in American politics. And it’s one that, a ...
On Jan. 20, Donald Trump will take the presidential oath of office: "I do solemnly swear ... the phrase has been a part of the oath ever since George Washington was said to have added it 236 ...
The only constitutionally mandated event on Inauguration Day is for the president-elect to take the oath of office. But on ...
A combination of harsh weather and delay in individual states choosing electors pushed the inauguration to April 30, 1789. At ...
Chief Justice John Roberts will administer the constitutionally mandated 35-word oath to President-elect Donald Trump.