In The News 21 January 2013

President Obama and Vice President Biden take oaths of office

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President Obama and Vice President Biden have been officially sworn into office, marking the start of their second term.

The Constitution mandates that the president takes the oath on Jan. 20.

Since that date fell on a Sunday this year, the public inauguration ceremony and festivities are taking place today. (See: http://www.whitehouse.gov/inauguration-2013.)

President Obama took the oath, administered by Chief Justice John Roberts, in the Blue Room of the White House, using a bible that belonged to First Lady Michelle Obama’s paternal grandparents.

Vice President Biden was sworn in by Justice Sonia Sotomayor in front of family and friends in a ceremony at the Naval Observatory. Vice President Biden took the oath using the Biden family bible.

 

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