Trump took the oath of office on Monday immediately after Vice President JD Vance was sworn in by Associate Supreme Court ...

Some presidents did not use a Bible to take the oath of office ... anything when he was sworn into office in 1901, and John Quincy Adams, who chose a legal book for his 1825 swearing-in, to ...

The tradition of swearing the oath of office on a Bible stretches back to ... John Quincy Adams, the sixth president, placed his hand on a book of law. Lyndon B. Johnson, aboard Air Force One ...

and that is saying the Oath of Office. Taking the Oath with your hand on a book According to the U.S. Department of State, in 1789 George Washington began the tradition of taking the oath with a ...

Readers of the Baron de Montesquieu’s “The Spirit of Laws” — they cited no book but the Bible more ... into federal service at all, that oath of office is still with us, for public ...

A select number of presidents have not sworn on the Bible, which was more common in earlier chapters of American history when specific rules and traditions weren’t as entrenched as they are today.

But it emphasizes that while the Constitution and other laws define the words of the oath of office, no specific book or document actually is required to take it. It even suggests that “swearing ...

Lyndon B. Johnson took the oath of office aboard Air Force One after John F. Kennedy’s assassination with a Roman Catholic missal or prayer book belonging to Kennedy that was found on the plane.

he wasn't the first president to take the oath of office without touching a religious text. For example, John Quincy Adams claimed to have used a book of law instead of a bible for his 1825 ...