A select number of presidents have not sworn on the Bible, which was more common in earlier chapters of American history when specific rules and traditions weren’t as entrenched as they are today.

George Washington sought oaths of loyalty to address ... allowing former Confederates into federal service at all, that oath of office is still with us, for public servants low and high.

The US constitution does not require a Bible for oath of office, but the tradition began back in 1789 when George Washington borrowed one from a Masonic Lodge in New York City. Trump did not place ...

Eisenhower, Warren G. Harding, and George H.W. Bush. Washington also set a precedent of kissing the Bible after taking the oath of office. Presidents followed suit, up until 1853, when Franklin ...

George Washington was sworn in at New York ... and vice president would end at noon on Jan. 20. For his first oath of office, Trump had his hand on two Bibles, one his own and one used by Abraham ...

Trump kicked off his second presidential term by pardoning Jan.6 rioters, and signed executive orders on TikTok and ...

On the afternoon of April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first president of the United States. Since Washington took his oath of office, Inauguration Day has continued to be an ...

The only constitutionally mandated event on Inauguration Day is for the president-elect to take the oath of office. But on the first Inauguration Day, in 1789, George Washington did something else.

A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to push out federal workers by offering them ...