...seated in his presidential chair awaiting results, just as Abraham Lincoln was journeying to Washington to take the oath of office as president of the United States. Even Mr. Lincoln had no idea of what was coming. His inaugural address is a noble argument for anión...

...remainder of her days and there he parted with her for the last time, when, in 1789 he left for New York to take the oath of office as President of the United States. The fear that this would be their last meeting on earth intensified the interest of the interview....

...the retiring President, a man faithful and true; James A. Garfield, the soldier and statesman about to take the oath of office as President of the United States; Salmon P. Chase, our great Chief Justice, to administer the oath of office to the incoming President;...

...was. That document — one of the most precious in American history or American literature — should be a veritable guide-book for the American patriot....practical ways and with no less generous purpose, pressed home upon his countrymen the principles to which their loyalty was due. The American patriot...

...longer be a doubt that all men are created equal. This was in Philadelphia, on his way to Washington to take the oath of office as President of the United States. He further said: Your worthy mayor [of Philadelphia] has expressed the wish, in which I join with him,...

...country gentleman of Virginia, rode his horse up to the Capitol, tied it to the fence, and walked up to take the oath of office as President of the United States. Henry Adams in his History has proved this legend to be false; but it must be preserved because it...

...and speeches were made in honor of his arrival. April 30, 1789, was the day set for George Washington to take the oath of office as president of the United States. The crowds began to form at dawn, although the ceremony was not to begin until noon. At Federal Hall,...

...highest court, did he again meet his old playmate when, in 1913, Woodrow Wilson came to Washington to take the oath of office as President of the United States. There was half a century's sleeping friendship back of the appointment which Mr. Wilson made some few...

...and dreary day, a few days later, he emerged from the Willard House with President Buchannan to go to the Capitol to take the oath of office as President of the United States. This man — Abraham Lincoln — took the oath amid an unfavorable, half -jeering crowd which was later...

...Free air, free ocean and a harmless shore." — SELDEN ON March 4, 1805, Jefferson stood a second time to take the oath of office as President of the United States. He was then in his sixty-second year, having just completed a term of peaceful and prosperous achievements...