Obama Retakes Oath – Because Chief Justice John Roberts garbled the Constitutional oath the first time around, in the photo below President Barack Obama retakes the oath of office in a simple ceremony at the White House.
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.
After a flawless recitation that included no Bible and took 25 seconds, Roberts smiled and said, “Congratulations, again.”
Obama said, “Thank you, sir,” and then added: “All right. The bad news for the [reporters] is there’s 12 more balls.”
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January 26th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
At 8:35 a.m. that day, President Obama arrived in the Oval Office for the first time and spent 10 minutes alone in the office.
He read the note left to him by President Bush that was in an envelope marked “To: #44, From: #43.”
Here’s the note from W: