Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House. It was a quiet, midmorning group, and yet the occasion was both formal and historic: since their terms legally expired on Sunday (and by tradition the public ceremony could not be held until Monday -see below), Dwight David Eisenhower and Richard Milhous Nixon were about to take the oath of office in private ceremony, i.e., unwatched by public or press...
...beside Dick and Pat Nixon. Ike and Dick both wore short morning coats and striped trousers; Mamie wore a black taffeta dress, and Pat a two-piece green wool suit. At 10:26 a nonfamily guest, California's Senator Bill Knowland, stepped forward and administered the vice-presidential oath to Dick Nixon, who swore fealty to the Constitution with his hand resting upon a Bible that had been in his family for five generations. Pat and the Nixon children watched solemnly-eight-year-old Julie sporting a black eye from a sled accident a few days before...
...Oath. Then Ike placed his left hand on the Bible his mother had given him when he graduated from West Point in 1915, opened at Psalms 33:12* raised his right hand and intoned after Chief Justice Earl Warren: "I, Dwight D. Eisenhower, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, so help...
...second inaugural address and his second Administration this week as he spoke out from the Capitol steps to the tens of thousands before him and into the TV screens of millions. Moments before, President Eisenhower had raised his hand before Chief Justice Earl Warren to take his public oath of office beneath clear blue skies that had displaced an early grey overcast, his breath making tracks in the cold...
West Virginia. Personable, boyish Republican Cecil Underwood, onetime biology teacher and at 34 a veteran of twelve years in the legislature, promised a pack of reforms, e.g., an end to state-employee shakedowns, proposed a new era of Eisenhower Republicanism, took oath of office as haughty outgoing Democrat William Marland looked on unsmilingly...