Inauguration day will begin at 8 a.m. with a prayer service. At 11 a.m., John Horhn will take the oath of office, along with ...

In the wake of President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963, President Lyndon B. Johnson took the oath of office aboard Air Force One by placing his left hand on a Catholic missal, or prayer ...

Among them, John Quincy Adams brought a “volume” of U.S. laws, and Theodore Roosevelt didn’t swear on a Bible when he was hastily sworn into office after William McKinley’s death.

For example, John Quincy Adams claimed to have used a book of law instead of a bible for his 1825 swearing-in, according to the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies.

John Adams wrote to Gen. Nathanael Greene in June 1777 that to improve morale and discipline in the army, ... that oath of office is still with us, for public servants low and high.