According to The White House Historical Association, President George Washington was the first to take an oath on April 30, ...

The tradition of swearing the oath of office on a Bible stretches back to George Washington, but not all presidents have observed it. By Elizabeth Dias National religion correspondent As Donald J.

Coolidge holds a family bible upon which he will take his oath. Mrs. Coolidge carries a bouquet of roses. It all started with George Washington. George Washington was inaugurated as the first ...

Historically, most incoming presidents have raised their right hand and placed their left on a Bible while taking the oath of office. In 1789, George Washington took the oath of office with a ...

On Presidents’ Day and always, may our prayer be the same. Keywords: george washington bible verse founding fathers Thomas Griffin Thomas Griffin is the chair of the religion department at a ...

Why do presidents place a hand on the Bible? The answer is simple: tradition. That’s what the first President of the United States, George Washington, did in 1789, according to the White House ...

"After repeating this oath, Washington kissed the Bible held for him by the Chancellor, who called out, ‘Long live George Washington, President of the United States,’ and a salvo of 13 cannons ...

Many of Washington's successors have used his Bible: Warren G. Harding, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jimmy Carter, and George H. W. Bush all chose it for their inaugurations (although some of them also ...