Atlanta News First on MSN9d
Oath of office has been administered 73 times to only 46 presidents
Donald Trump became the 47th American president on Monday, but the oath of office itself has been administered 73 times ...
National Catholic Reporter9dOpinion
Christian nationalism's role in the presidential oath's 'so help me God'
It was important in Cold War America to prove that it was a Christian nation, so a new story was added to the American ...
PBS6y
The Little-Known President
Malaria in "Puck" Magazine. Public Domain. After taking the oath of office, the first thing James Garfield did was bend down to kiss his mother Eliza on the cheek. She was the first mother of a ...
The Hill10d
These notable inaugurations weren’t held at the US Capitol. Here’s why
The inauguration ceremony would move to Washington D.C. for Thomas Jefferson’s 1801 oath of office, according ... a consular post shot President James A. Garfield at a Washington, D.C. railroad ...
Flagpole Magazine8d
Like Trump’s, Presidential Inaugurations Often Draw Protests
Donald J. Trump made history on Jan. 20 when he became the first convicted felon to take the presidential oath of office. Speaking from the Capitol in Washington—the same building that was infamously ...
UPI23d
'So help me God': How Christian nationalism shaped the presidential oath of office
On Jan. 20, Donald Trump will take the presidential oath of office ... Arthur was sworn in after the death of James Garfield. But it was important in Cold War America to prove that it was ...