The Chief Justice of the United States (Supreme Court) typically administers the oath of office to the incoming President. Another justice may swear in the Vice-President. Senior Justice John Paul Stevens administered the oath to Vice-President Biden at the 2008 inauguration.
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Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson was sworn in on Air Foce one just hours after President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22nd 1963.
Until he was sworn in as President on Jan. 20, 1989, George H.W. Bush served as Vice President under Ronald Reagan. After he took the oath of office, Dan Quayle became Bush's Vice President for the rest of the year and served a full four-year term.
If the president dies then the vice president takes office if the vice president dies then the speaker of office is president
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court administers the oath to the President. There is no designated person to swear in the vice-president, however. That is up to the Vice President elect.
The Chief Justice of the United States (Supreme Court) typically administers the oath of office to the incoming President. Another justice may swear in the Vice-President. Senior Justice John Paul Stevens administered the oath to Vice-President Biden at the 2008 inauguration.
The Oath of Office - Vice President-elect Jo Biden, Jr.administered by Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, John Paul Stevens
Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, who is the Senior Associate on the Court, flawlessly administered the Oath of Office to Vice-President Biden.
The new president and vice-president begin their terms on this day and take the oath for their offices. The chief justice of the US administers the oaths. What other people are involved depends on the year and the President and the planners of the event.
The Vice President takes the oath of office during the same ceremony as the President. Joseph Biden will be sworn in as the new Vice President prior to Barack Obama's swearing in.
No, the President's Oath is written in the Constitution. The Vice President's Oath is the same oath that members of Congress take and was not written in the Constitution, but the Constitution does require that the VP be bound by an Oath.
If the President dies, the Vice-President takes the Presidential Oath of Office and becomes President of the United States. She then appoints a new Vice-President, with the advice and consent of the Senate.
John Tyler was the first person to take office after a president died.
Vice President Calvin Coolidge was visiting family in Vermont when President Warren Harding died. The oath of office was administered to the new President by his father who was a Vermont notary public and justice of the peace.
As soon as he takes the oath of office at Obama's inauguration.
John Tyler was vice president to William Henry Harrison, a man who died about a month after taking the oath of office in 1841.