Some, like Lyndon B. Johnson, have chosen family Bibles. Others have selected a Bible used by a former president, which is what Barack Obama did in 2009 when he was sworn in with Abraham Lincoln's ...

Lyndon Johnson hired Geri Whittington as his secretary because she was the most qualified. She was also the first Black woman to hold it and became a symbol of the Civil Rights Era.

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Following President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, Lyndon B. Johnson took his oath with a Roman Catholic prayer book that was already aboard Air Force One.

Photos of the swearing-in ceremony showed Trump with his hand at his side and not atop the Bible. Does it matter?

John Quincy Adams used a law text for his 1825 inauguration. Lyndon B. Johnson used a Catholic missal as he was sworn in aboard Air Force One after John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.