Donald Trump became the 47th American president on Monday, but the oath of office itself has been administered 73 times before to the 46 preceding chief executives. According to the Architect of the Capitol,

It was important in Cold War America to prove that it was a Christian nation, so a new story was added to the American creation myth: Through the nation's history, all presidents invoked God as part of their oath.

Kevin Butterfield is director of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress. The Constitution is remarkably nonspecific on most things, and deliberately so. John Marshall famously wrote that the document marks the “ great outlines ” and designates the “important objects” only. It is a Constitution, not a legal code.

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 attacked by a howling mob of his supporters on Jan.

The inauguration ceremony would move to Washington D.C. for Thomas Jefferson’s 1801 oath of office, according to the National ... passed over for a consular post shot President James A. Garfield at a Washington, D.C. railroad station.

Lago. For weeks now, the United States has been operating under the misassumption that Donald J. Trump was elected president on Nov. 5 because 77 million dewy eyed Americans voted for him. Oh, ye of little faith.

It was a full day of celebration in Harrisburg honoring the inaugurations of Treasurer Stacy Garrity, Auditor General Timothy DeFoor, and Attorney General David Sunday.

Veterans are fond of saying that they took an oath of service to the Constitution and the nation and that their oath never expires. Navy veteran Eli Colvin was one

As a result of Sunday’s victory, plus Auditor General Tim DeFoor and Treasurer Stacy Garrity winning reelection, Republicans now occupy Pennsylvania’s three statewide row offices.

Pennsylvania’s three statewide row officers will be sworn in to four-terms, marking the first time that the state’s voters elected Republicans to fill all three offices at the same time.

When JD Vance took the oath of office, not only did he officially became America's 50th vice president, but he became the first representative from the millennial generation to hold the office. Vance is now the third youngest vice president in the history of the nation.

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