Obama Retakes Oath Of Office – In the photo below, President Barack Obama retakes the oath of office the day after the Inauguration ceremony because Chief Justice John Roberts garbled the Constitutional oath the first time around.
A president is required by the Constitution to say, “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
At the inauguration, Roberts instead said: “that I will execute the office of president to the United States faithfully.”
In a statement, White House counsel Greg Craig said the oath was re-administered “out of an abundance of caution.”
“We believe that the oath of office was administered effectively and that the President was sworn in appropriately yesterday. But the oath appears in the Constitution itself,” Craig’s statement said.
The fact that Obama retakes oath of office and is sworn in again isn’t unprecedented. Two previous presidents – Calvin Coolidge and Chester A. Arthur – have retaken the oath because of unusual circumstances the first time around.
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November 4th, 2009 at 6:29 am
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