Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Texas friends (Houston Attorney Leon Jaworski and Federal Judge Homer Thornberry). Talk was also revived that Johnson would like to be the first President to appoint a woman or a Negro to the court, thus might well settle on either Federal Judge Sarah Hughes, who administered the presidential oath of office to him in Dallas, or Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall...
...Full Record" [Feb. 24], you raise a question as to whether I was present in the cabin of Air Force One during the swearing-in of President Johnson on Nov. 22, 1963. I witnessed the entire ceremony, standing directly behind Judge Sarah Hughes, who administered the oath...
...seems likely, the full House accepts the committee's report this week, Powell will be allowed to take his seat in the 90th Congress. After taking his oath, the committee said, he should be "brought to the bar of the House in the custody of the sergeant-at-arms and be there publicly censured by the Speaker in the name of the House."* In addition, Powell would lose his 22 years of seniority, dropping from 31st in standing to 434th among 435 members (one other seat is presently vacant). He would thus have to exchange his large, plush office...
Groves and the other officers, incidentally, were not "witty" in the sense that past officers have been: they knew of the relationship but had not signed a security oath. They had found out unofficially, which may have put them under less pressure than past officers to keep quiet...
During this conversation, the selected student would be told that there were certain aspects of the organization's dealings with the government which he did not know about, which it might be useful for him to know. He would be asked to sign a security oath. After he signed, he was told he was now an employee of the CIA, and if he revealed this he was subject to a 20-year jail sentence...