Some presidents did not use a Bible to take the oath of office, including Theodore Roosevelt, who did not use anything when ...

The tradition of swearing the oath of office on a Bible stretches back to George Washington, but not all presidents have observed it. By Elizabeth Dias National religion correspondent As Donald J.

Neither the Constitution or any of its amendments require any particular ceremonies or events to take place before a president can take office. George Washington took his oath with his hand on a ...

George Washington sought oaths of loyalty to address ... allowing former Confederates into federal service at all, that oath of office is still with us, for public servants low and high.

Everyone knows the presidential oath of office ends with the phrase “so help me God,” theoretically because George Washington ad libbed it during the very first inauguration in American history.

On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States. Since Washington took his oath of office, Inauguration Day has continued to be an ...

George Washington was sworn in at New York ... and vice president would end at noon on Jan. 20. For his first oath of office, Trump had his hand on two Bibles, one his own and one used by Abraham ...