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...guess is that a security check and a loyalty oath will be written into the Peace Corps," Monro said. Although "nobody thinks these are particularly necessary or desirable," he observed, "I wouldn't want Harvard outside the Peace Corps on these counts." "No one has talked yet of an affidavit of disbelief," he added...
...Congressman Walter stated that he was investigating a conspiracy. I stated under oath that I had never done anything conspiratorial. If he doubted my word, why didn't he question it; Why didn't he have me indicated for perjury? Because I believe that even he knew that I was speaking the truth...
...inaugural ceremony on Jan. 20, the Vice President's oath contained the words "without mental reservation." In the President's oath these words were not included. Why the difference in these two oaths...
...Presidential Oath of Office as set forth in the Constitution does not contain that language. The Oath of Office for Vice President and other Government offices, as provided in the U.S. Code, has those words, but Vice President Lyndon Johnson did not use them. He took his oath "without any reservation whatever...
...Calvin Coolidge, in his Autobiography, recalls his taking of the oath of office at his father's home in Vermont after the death of President Warren G. Harding: "The Bible, which had belonged to my mother, lay on the table at my hand. It was not officially used as it is not the practice in Vermont or Massachusetts to use a Bible in connection with the administration of the oath." Whether Rutherford B. Hayes actually had his hand on the Bible is obscure, but the artist's picture of him at his inauguration done from a photograph...