Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks ago, TIME'S editors in New York decided that the cover for this week's issue should be a color photograph of John Fitzgerald Kennedy at the precise moment when he raised his right hand and took the oath as the nation's 35th President. What the cameramen captured is seen on this week's cover-the fastest-closing cover in TIME'S 38-year history...
Sense of History. In his address, John Kennedy told the nation and the world: "I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago." This sense of history, this understanding of the U.S. and its government as continuing institutions, gave strength to the Kennedy speech and underlined the orderly transition that last week characterized the changeover of presidential power...
Thus last week did Jack Kennedy become the 35th President of the U.S. This was his time of personal triumph. But it was more than that. For the moment of Kennedy's oath taking gave meaning to all the ritual and ceremony, to all the high jinks and low capers, to all the confusion bordering on chaos, that had gone before in a wild and wonderful week...
During the swearing-in ceremonies in the Senate, Lyndon Baines Johnson, as the duly elected Senator from Texas, went through the formality of taking the oath of office. Moments later, as the duly elected Vice President of the U.S., he listened as the clerk read his resignation from the Senate. Johnson made a hand-washing gesture, watched patronizingly while an appointed Senator, Millionaire William Blakley, was sworn in his stead, shortly walked out of the chamber to revert (but not for long) to the title of mister...
...Clement of Alexandria, who lived in the late 2nd century. The letter, to an unknown Theodore, corresponds in vocabulary and style to known writings of Clement. It refers to a "secret Gospel" of Mark-so secret, in fact, that Clement enjoins Theodore to deny knowledge of it even on oath...