Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...confrontation with the Guard, possibly touching off its firing-squad response. Norman, now an employee of the Washington, D.C., police department, has denied that he used a gun on the day of the shooting, and the FBI denies that he worked for it; but Norman has never explained under oath why he was acting as a photographer...
...mystery. The new President was a relatively unknown army officer, Lieut. General Phaedon Gizikis (who was promoted to full general three days after the coup). But he did not seem to be a particularly forceful figure; in fact he went out of his way to announce, after taking the oath of office, that "I have no personal ambition." The new Cabinet was composed of civilian rightists who had been rounded up quickly after the takeover; some were unknowns and some were has-beens...
...name of freedom, the Sons of Liberty mobbed him and all but destroyed his presses. Rivington rolled up his fine cambric sleeves and went on printing. When the Revolutionary War finally broke out, Rivington was arrested and forced on pain of permanent prison to sign a loyalty oath to our young and proudly free nation. Broken at last, he did, and died a bookseller in New York...
...life before the assassination, perhaps none is so strong as the memory of Kennedy's inauguration. I was home from school on that day also because there had been a mild snowfall the night before and the board of education called off classes. I watched John Kennedy take the oath of office on the same television set that would later tell me of his death. I watched with my mother, brother and sister and I remember thinking that he looked like such a nice, strong and honest man. He talked about beautiful things like freedom and dignity and self-determination...
...there is a limit beyond which even such "permissible" offenses, even such instances of "mere" misgovernment, become intolerable. And the situation changes fundamentally when the effect of the President's actions and the actions of his appointees is to subvert the constitutional system itself. He then betrays his formal oath of office and his informal compact with the people...