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 ...

The phrase ‘so help me God’ is believed to be a part of the presidential oath ever since George Washington is said to have used it 236 years ago. Except, says a historian - there is no evidence of it.

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 ...

But in one place the drafters of the Constitution wrote word for word what governance would look like under the newly constituted United States: the president’s oath of office. “I do solemnly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Parker, Kennesaw State University (THE CONVERSATION) On Jan. 20, 2025, Donald Trump will take the presidential oath of office ... in after the death of James Garfield. But it was important ...