Word: oaths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last days as a private citizen. In his first two days in Washington, he presided over four meetings with his economic advisers, each lasting 90 minutes. The meetings filled in details of four directives that aides expected Reagan to issue within days, or even hours, of taking the oath of office...
...premier appearance was. of course, that of Haig. At his own request, he testified under oath. Behind him sat Wife Patricia, Son Alexander, 28, and Brother Francis, a Jesuit priest. The former four-star general began by reading, in forceful tones, a well-reasoned, 20-page statement, in which he reminded the Senators that he had given sworn testimony on eight occasions about his actions during Watergate and other controversial events during the Nixon Administration, and that "none of these investigations has found any culpability on my part...
Reagan is now leaning away from the advice of some aides that he proclaim a "national economic emergency" upon taking office. The words call up visions of the breadlines, waves of bank failures and threats of outright starvation that confronted Franklin D. Roosevelt when he took the oath of office in 1933. Nothing remotely that drastic menaces...
...immigrants wade through the registration tables, and wait for the judge's arrival. She enters, accompanied through the aisles by a retinue of assistants and clerks. The motions for naturalization are cried out by the naturalization attorneys, and she delivers a short speech. The new citizens take the oath of allegiance...
...hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, to whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required...