Washington also set a precedent of kissing the Bible after taking the oath of office. Presidents followed suit, up until 1853, when Franklin ... Roosevelt, who did not use anything when he was ...

WASHINGTON -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States, took office for a second term ... Advertisement Shouting his inaugural address into a downpour which swept through ...

After being named the first President of ... President Theodore Roosevelt was swiftly first sworn into office in 1901 when President William McKinley was assassinated in Buffalo, New York.

He died a month later. Almost as bad, the National Weather Service writes, was Franklin Pierce's inauguration in 1853. “Pierce was sworn into office on another cold and snowy day,” the NWS ...