• lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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    5 days ago

    Presidents can be sworn in on whatever they want. At least one has used something else, although I don’t recall who or what it was.

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      John Quincy Adams chose “The Volume of Laws” in 1825. Teddy Roosevelt had nothing right after McKinley’s assassination in 1901. The only other oddball I see is Lyndon B Johnson used the closest prayer book after JFK’s assassination