Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week before his inauguration, Dwight Eisenhower thought much about the passage in the Bible on which he wished to place his hand when taking the oath of high office. One morning at his Commodore Hotel headquarters, he remembered. He marked off II Chronicles, Chapter 7, starting with the 14th verse: "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land...
Stevenson had his emotions well in hand, however, early this week when he went down to Springfield's Armory for his successor's inauguration. Impassively he watched Stratton take the oath of office. Then he headed off for his Libertyville farm which he planned to share with his tenant, Marshall Field Jr., an Ike supporter. Early in March, Adlai Stevenson will leave for a three-or four-month tour of the Far East...
Rummage-Sales & Muddy Boots. At the first inauguration, in 1789 in New York City, someone forgot to provide a Bible for the. President's oath. George Washington had all but started to raise his right hand when a frantic messenger turned up with the Good Book (which he had found in a downtown tavern where the St. John's Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons used to hold its meetings...
...equally memorable was the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln and Vice President Andrew Johnson in 1865. Johnson had just got through an attack of typhoid fever and, though a light drinker, he fortified himself with some brandy, chased by several slugs of whisky. When his turn came to take the oath, he stood up, weaving slightly, and made an unscheduled but extremely fiery speech ("Humble as I am, plebeian as I may be deemed, permit me in the presence of this brilliant assemblage . . ."). "Senators on the Republican side." reported the New York World, "began to hide their heads." Notables tugged...
...Smith hurried to East London, but before he arrived, the fish had disintegrated. Its soft parts had turned to mush, leaving only its bones and armorlike scales. Then & there Dr. Smith swore an ichthyological oath: he would find another coelacanth. Somewhere in East African waters there must be more of them...