Word: oathing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...earliest stage of development. Columnists are making their way briskly through the Democratic ruins to locate politicians still sound enough of wind and limb to try to drive President Reagan out of Washington-which seems almost manically premature, since Reagan is still almost two months away from his Inaugural Oath...
...downstairs to make his victory speech to wildly cheering supporters, he struck the same mixed tone of humility and boyish glee that so obviously had charmed American voters during the campaign. Said he: "I consider that trust you have placed in me sacred, and I give you my sacred oath that I will do my utmost to justify your faith." That was the sober side; the other showed a few moments later when supporters brought him a cake shaped like the country, lush with flags marking the states he had carried. As the bearers held it up, the cake started...
They cannot take the Capitol these days. Piles of wood lie on the steps, where workmen are hammering together the viewing stands for the Inauguration. The ceremony will be held on the west side of the building this time. When the President takes his oath of office he will be lined up with the monuments to Washington and Lincoln. After he is sworn in, he will make his way up Constitution Avenue, then veer to the right up Pennsylvania toward the house that Rear Admiral Cockburn could not obliterate...
Both Thomson and Neustadt said that a Reagan victory might expedite release of the hostages by the end of Carter's lame-duck presidency. Thomson said the Iranians may wish to settle the situation before the "new duck" takes the oath, while Neustadt stressed that Carter would probably want to leave office with the resolution of the crisis to his credit...
Honesty, as Diogenes would caution, has never been the strong suit of the human species. Mandatory oath taking in legal proceedings was not invented out of faith in the natural probity of witnesses. Everybody fibs, alas. It is also true that every epoch has its roster of villains, its quota of predatory deceit. Yet today the roster seems far longer than usual, and most observers agree that the quota of duplicity-from artful dodging to elaborate fraud-is growing intolerably large...