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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.
If the president dies then the vice president takes office if the vice president dies then the speaker of office is president
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_line_of_succession#Constitutional_foundation " {| ! 1 | Vice President and President of the Senate Joe Biden ! 2 | Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi ! 3 | President pro tempore of the Senate Robert Byrd ! 4 | Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton " |}
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.