Among them, John Quincy Adams brought a “volume” of U.S ... Trump did indeed have two Bibles nearby when taking his most recent oath of office — one given to him by his great-grandmother ...

WASHINGTON — The chief justice of the Supreme Court traditionally administers the oath of office to the incoming ... to early vice presidents like John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr ...

While the U.S. Constitution requires the incoming president to take an oath at the start of his ... exist when George Washington took office in 1789. John Adams was the first president to invite ...

President Donald Trump took his oath of office on his inauguration ... The first was in 1825, when John Quincy Adams took his oath “while reading a volume of law,” according to the Joint ...