Word: oath
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...neck and the head, and seriously wounding John Cannily, the governor of Texas, who was riding with the Kennedys. The President was rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead about a half hour later. Within two hours, Vice President [Lyndon B.] Johnson look the oath as president...
Soon after De la Espriella took the oath of office as interim President, Commander Paredes ordered all Panamanian newspapers to suspend publication for seven days. He also "suggested" the resignation of all Cabinet ministers, mayors and Governors until "some are reconfirmed and others replaced." Among the ministers slated for replacement were the country's Attorney General and Comptroller General. Paredes also suggested that there would be changes made in the composition of the country's Electoral Tribunal, which oversees national elections. By no coincidence, Paredes is expected to quit his post as National Guard commander...
...January 20, 1981, two sagas intersect. A few minutes before noon, as spectators on Capitol Hill cluster around portable radios to hear the latest news of the American hostages' release. Ronald Wilson Reagan takes the oath of office to become the 40th President of the United States. One half hour later, as President Reagan's motorcade proceeds up crowded Pennsylvania Avenue, the 52 American hostages who have been held in Iran for 444 days' lift off from Tehran on a flight bound for Algiers...
...images freeze the day in the minds of the American public: Nancy Reagan, attired in brilliant red, gazing admiringly at her husband as he takes the oath of office upon a tattered family Bible: Elizabeth Ann Swift '62, the first hostage to come through the door of the plane, starting down the stairs, hanging back, then descending the ramp, talking and smiling broadly...
...West that Brezhnev had been felled by a stroke. Said the doctor: "He has been buried so many times by the foreign press that I have lost count." Chazov, who heads the medical team that treats all the Kremlin leaders, pointed out that he is bound by an oath of confidentiality as regards his patients-including the President. "American doctors would understand that perfectly," Chazov said. "They would also understand that if anyone were to reappear in public two weeks after a stroke-well, it could only be a miracle." Chazov was awarded the Lenin Prize last month for helping...