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[edit] Question.

Which presidents said "So help me"? Baloogan 10:54, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

None to my knowledge. The only US President to have not said "So help me God" was Franklin Pierce. GoodDay 19:23, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Bushes inauguration

Id also like to say that president bush's was the first to ever get protested... it just proves a fact..

Socom3ELITE 23:33, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

No, it wasn't. Clinton's, Reagan's, and quite a few others were protested. Bush is not so outstandingly good or evil that people make a special case about him. GABaker 15:07, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Your statment 'proves' that the anti-bush crowd is insane 69.245.80.218 (talk) 11:12, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Removing "globalize" tag

This article is specifically about the "inauguration day" event in the United States, and adding material about other countries' inauguration events would make this article too large. The presence of the globalize tag would encourage tacking too much onto this particular title. Any globalizing should be done on a separate title. I have no problems with moving this entire article to Inauguration Day (United States) if (and only if) someone is going to develop an article about other countries' similar traditions on the Inauguration Day title. SchuminWeb (Talk) 20:11, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Athiest president?

I just had a thought- to the best of my knowledge, U.S. presidents are sworn in with a hand on the bible. I suppose future non-Christian presidents could use similar documents, such as the Koran. But what would a possible future Atheist President? What would they swear on, a scientific magazine? Is there a known contingency plan for this kind of situation, or would we just have to make him "Pinky-promise?" That sounds like a bad contingency plan to me. 69.121.179.87 (talk) 23:50, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

What does this have to do with improvements to the article? SchuminWeb (Talk) 03:45, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
God damnit, I hate this Wikipedia policy of not talking about the article, only improving it. It's a tight- ass rule, even for an encyclopedia website. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.121.179.87 (talk) 17:55, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
We'll just have to make sure it never comes up. 69.245.80.218 (talk) 11:12, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Swear vs. affirm

In working on List of United States Presidential religious affiliations, I've come across the question of which presidents affirmed rather than swore the oath of office. Sources are incredibly contradictory-- sometimes self-contradictory-- but as best I can determine, Franklin Pierce is the only president who affirmed; at least, I can find many sources that say he did, and none that say he didn't. In Herbert Hoover's case, it appears that many sources assume that he affirmed because he was a Quaker; but there are definite contemporary news sources which state positively that he did not. His inauguration was supposedly sound-recorded, but I have not found a trace of any such recording, and I've seen one site asserting that no such recording is available. (Richard Nixon, the only other Quaker, definitely swore rather than affirmed, and a YouTube video of DDE's inaugural shows him swearing rather than affirming the vice presidential oath.) Mangoe (talk) 02:03, 16 February 2008 (UTC)