So Help Me God: The U.S. Presidents in Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781560723349 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 176 str.

Daniel Ernest White

Opis

For much of British history, kings and queens have taken oaths on the Bible as they were coronated. Symbolically, perhaps, President George Washington swore on an open Bible, establishing a new American tradition. For Washington, the Bible was opened at random, and many of his successors followed suit.