At least four presidents took the oath sans the Bible. The nation's sixth president, John Quincy Adams, was sworn into office in 1825 while reading a law book, according to the Joint Congressional ...

Among them, John Quincy Adams brought a “volume” of U.S ... Trump did indeed have two Bibles nearby when taking his most recent oath of office — one given to him by his great-grandmother ...

John Adams wrote to Gen ... grappled with allowing former Confederates into federal service at all, that oath of office is still with us, for public servants low and high. I took it when I ...

But when Adams took the oath of office, it was still not clear how the ... As Chervinsky puts it, “George Washington created the presidency, but John Adams defined it.” He barely got the ...

he wasn't the first president to take the oath of office without touching a religious text. For example, John Quincy Adams ...