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WASHINGTON (RNS) President-elect Barack Obama has chosen the Bible used at President Lincoln's first inauguration for his own swearing-in on Jan. 20, inaugural planners announced.
The Lincoln Inaugural Bible will be on display at the Library of Congress February 12th to May 9th, 2009, as part of an exhibition titled “With Malice Toward None: The Abraham Lincoln ...
Barack Obama’s decision to select the same Bible for his inauguration that Abraham Lincoln used at his first inauguration in 1861 forges an intriguing connection between these two presidents. It ...
And tomorrow, he will swear to preserve, protect and defend the constitution on the same bible Lincoln used in 1861, CBS News White House correspondent Bill Plante reports.
On Monday, President-elect Donald Trump will use two Bibles to culminate the 60th Presidential Inauguration. He is not the first to do so, nor to use the historical Bible he chose.
Obama, in fact, twice used the Lincoln Bible — a burgundy, velvet-bound book that was serendipitously used in the 16th ...
The Almost Chosen People: Lincoln, the Hebrew Bible, and the Meaning of America. Instructor: Rabbi Dr. Meir Y. Soloveichik (Yeshiva University) Dates: July 7 – 11, 2025 . Description: As a young ...
PORT BYRON - A part of the history of the village of Port Byron came home Thursday afternoon as a Bible belonging to Abraham Lincoln made its way back just for a day. More than 60 people gathered ...
In 2017, Trump stacked a family Bible atop Lincoln’s while taking the oath. That recalls Barack Obama, who also used the Lincoln Bible during his first swearing-in in 2009.
SPRINGFIELD – A bible that belonged to Abraham Lincoln in his final year of life has been donated to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. Mary Lincoln gave the bible to family ...
Obama, in fact, twice used the Lincoln Bible — a burgundy, ... The one used for Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration in 1861 will be stacked with a timeworn copy given to Trump by his mother in 1955.