...stirring all these separated peoples out of their narrowness and welding them into a nation. heard him take the oath of office as President of the United States, he realized more than any one else could realize how great was the task before him — to make the States...

...in Thomson en route to Washington to be sworn in as US Senator — March 1921. for Watson to ascend the steps of the Capitol to take the oath of office as United States Senator on March 4, 1921. He had not been in the halls of Congress since he left the...

...peak. It was six months, now, since Herbert Hoover had driven down Pennsylvania Avenue in the rain to take the oath of office as President of the United States. He had appointed the Wickersham Commission to investigate law enforcement in general and prohibition in...

...United States: An Almost Covenanted Polity Covenant and the American Founding On his way to Washington to take the oath of office as president of the United States of America, at a time when the US itself seemed destined for dissolution, Abraham Lincoln pointedly...

...govern her affairs. In view of these incontestable facts it is not incorrect to hold that in order to take the oath of office as President of the United States one must be either an off-color American or an off-color Catholic. When John F. Kennedy made it unequivocally...

...trepidation. "It becomes our painful duty to inform you of the death of President Garfield and to advise you to take the oath of office as President of the United States without delay," it began.285 Upon receiving the news of Garfield's death. Root and the others scurried...

...the news to Arthur. Then came a telegram from the cabinet: "It becomes our painful duty to advise you to take the oath of office as President of the United States without delay. We will be very glad if you will come here on the earliest train tomorrow morning."...

...vigorous young man who had just rushed from a vacation in the Adirondacks stepped into the library to take the oath of office as president of the United States. William McKinley was dead, the victim of an assassin; the era of Theodore Roosevelt was about to begin....