Word: oaths
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WASHINGTON--Four months after his election-day victory, Bill Clinton yesterday took the presidential oath of office, delivered a poetic inaugural address and paraded down Pennsylvania Avenue to his new residence at the White House...
After Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist administered the oath, President Clinton spoke for slightly more than 10 minutes in what proved mostly to be a confident repetition of the themes which drove his fall campaign...
When George Washington first took the oath I have just sworn to uphold, news traveled slowly across the land on horse-back and across the oceans by boat. Now the sights and sounds of this ceremony are broadcast instantaneously to billions around the world...
James Baker's role in the Bush administration was so great that many speculated about which of the two long-time Texas buddies was really running the presidency. On the cover of its November 2, 1992 issue, The New Republic featured Baker taking the inaugural oath underneath the banner "President Baker {Four More Years...
...during its brief period of independence between the two World Wars. All others, most of them Russians who immigrated during Soviet rule, were left out and could not vote in recent elections. Estonia's naturalization rules are relatively lenient, however -- just three years' residency, knowledge of Estonian and an oath of loyalty. In Latvia, where fears of Russian political and cultural dominance are justifiably greater, parliament is considering a draconian 16- year residency period...