Word: sworn
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...year-old second-year student in the Law School defeated 40-year-old Peter J. Cloherty by an unofficial margin of about 2,100 to 900, according to Long headquarters. He will be sworn into the legislature in a few days and will serve until January, 1965. The special election was held to fill the unexpired term of Democrat William F. Joyce, who was killed in an accident in October...
Amid the pressing concerns of his first week in office, the President of the U.S. showed that the economy and its welfare are very much on his mind. Barely 30 hours after he was sworn in, Lyndon Johnson began meeting with his economic advisers, and three times during the week he conferred with Walter Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. His speech before Congress bore down heavily on the economic policies endorsed by John Kennedy-the tax cut, the stability of the dollar, the expansion of foreign trade. To Christian Herter, the chief U.S. trade negotiator, he restated...
...does. In such circumstances the change of power is cruel but necessary. Ninety-eight minutes after Kennedy was pronounced dead, Lyndon Baines Johnson, 55, was sworn in as 36th President of the United States...
...dignified top hat sat squarely upon his head, but beneath it a boyish grin showed that the young man was having the time of his life. On that day-Jan. 20, 1961-John Fitzgerald Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th President of the United States. And when he had taken the oath of office, he stood bareheaded in a bitter winter wind and delivered an inaugural address that crackled with the gusto of youth, yet had an eloquence that was ageless...
...Vice-President, Lyndon B. Johnson, was sworn in as the thirty-sixth President of the United States at 3:39 p.m. (EST) on the Presidential plane at Dallas' Love Field...