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January 20, 2015.

In two years from today, a new President and Vice President will be sworn in in Washington, DC.

Today, inaugural trivia!

Length:

George Washington's was the shortest inaugural address at 135 words. (1793)

William H. Harrison's was the longest inaugural address at 8,445 words. (1841)

Washington served 8 years, Harrison served one month. Inverse relationship??


Traditions and when they were established:

Thomas Jefferson was the only president to walk to and from his inaugural. He was also the first to be inaugurated at the Capitol. (1801) - This tradition of walking at least part of the way can therefore be attributed to Jefferson.

The first inaugural ball was held for James Madison. (1809) - This has now become an absolute fixture in american electoral politics.

John Quincy Adams was the first president sworn in wearing long trousers (1825).



McKinley's second inauguration in 1901 was the first year in which the Senate and the HOR made the inaugural announcement together, as a team.

James Garfield's mother was the first to attend her son's inauguration (1881) and William Taft's wife was the first one to accompany her husband in the procession from the Capitol to the White House. (1909)

- Can you imagine an inauguration today without family being there?

Warren G. Harding was the first president to ride to and from his inaugural in an automobile. (1921)



Exceptions to the "rule":

Taft's outdoor inauguation in 1909 was cancelled because of a massive blizzard. It was quickly moved indoors, to the Senate.

Franklin Pierce was the first president to affirm rather than swear the oath of office (1853). Herbert Hoover followed suit in 1929.

Calvin Coolidge's oath in 1925 was administered by Chief Justice (and ex-president) William Taft. It was also the first inaugural address broadcast on the radio. Coolidge was sworn in by his father, a notary public, when he assumed the presidency in 1923 after Warren Harding's death. He is the only president ever to have been sworn in by his own father, and then, sworn in by a former President.

Lyndon Johnson was the first (and so far) only president to be sworn in by a woman, U.S. District Judge Sarah T. Hughes. (1963)

Jimmy Carter's inaugural parade featured solar heat for the reviewing stand and handicap-accessible viewing. (1977)

Five Presidents, all former Vice-Presidents, were never inaugurated: John Tyler (1841), Millard Fillmore (1850), Andrew Johnson (1865), Chester A. Arthur (1881) and Gerald R. Ford (1974). In fact, Gerald R. Ford holds a special, one-time only statistic: the only non-elected Vice-President who went on to become our only non-elected President, and in both cases, there was no inauguration.



Media coverage of inaugurations:

James Polk's inauguration was the first Inauguration covered by telegraph and also the first known Inauguration featured in a newspaper illustration; illustration appeared in the Illustrated London News. (1845)

The first inauguration to be photographed was James Buchanan's. (1857)

William McKinley's inauguration was the first ceremony to be recorded by a motion picture camera. (1897)

Theodore Roosevelt's inauguration (1905) was the first one where telephone lines had been installed and the press could telephone the story out instead of telegraphing it.

Calvin Coolidge's inauguration was the first Inaugural ceremony broadcast nationally by radio. (1925)

Harry Truman's was the first to be televised. (1949)

The first ceremony broadcast on the Internet was Bill Clinton's second inauguration. (1997)


Historical firsts that influenced history:

Abraham Lincoln was the first to include African-Americans in his parade. (1865)

Women were included for the first time in Woodrow Wilson's second inaugural parade. (1917)



Other interesting factoids:


John Kennedy's inauguration had Robert Frost as the first poet to participate in the official ceremony. (1961) The only other President to feature poets was Bill Clinton. Maya Angelou read at his 1993 inaugural, and Miller Williams read at his second, in 1997. (1961)

Ronald Reagan's second inaugural had to compete with Super Bowl Sunday. (1985)
It was also the coldest Inauguration day on record, with a noon temperature of 7°F.

The Vice-Presidential oath is LONGER than the presidential oath.


Repeating the oath:

On the second day of his presidency, Barack Obama was sworn in a second time by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. because, following Roberts's lead, Obama improperly recited the oath. He said, "I will execute the office of president to the United States faithfully." The word "faithfully" belongs between "will" and "execute." (2009).

Five presidents took a private oath when Inauguration Day fell on a Sunday, and then a second oath in a scheduled public ceremony on the next day (Monday): Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877 (who actually took the private oath on March 3, a Saturday, one day before his term started),Woodrow Wilson in 1917, Dwight Eisenhower in 1957, Ronald Reagan in 1985, and Barack Obama in 2013.

This makes Barack Obama the only president in history to take the oath of office twice for each inauguration and technically ties him with FDR for the number of oaths taken (4).

Presidents Chester A. Arthur (1881) and Calvin Coolidge (1923) took their first oath in a private venue (their residences), in the middle of the night, immediately after being notified of the death of a predecessor (James A. Garfield and Warren G. Harding, respectively). They later retook the oath after returning to Washington. In the case of Coolidge, there was an additional doubt whether an oath administered by a public notary (Coolidge's father) was valid.

All but six presidents took the presidential oath in Washington, D.C.The exceptions were:

• George Washington—1789, New York City; 1793, Philadelphia
• John Adams—1797, Philadelphia
• Chester Alan Arthur—1881, New York City
• Theodore Roosevelt—1901, Buffalo
• Calvin Coolidge—1923, Plymouth, Vt.
• Lyndon Baines Johnson—1963, Dallas

At leat one Vice President did not take the vice-presidential oath in Washington: W. Rufus King. He was convalescing from a deadly illness in Cuba at the time of the inauguration and took the oath in Cuba. He died from his illness 6 weeks later, at home in Chestnut Hill, and never set foot in Washington as Vice President.

Now, these are only the beginning factoids, there are many, many more...

Sources: many and various, a lot from memory!

 

[Statistikhengst]

January 21, 2015:

Pigs have 5,500 taste buds. Cows have 35,000. Antelope have 55,000.

 

[Pogo]

January 20, 2015.

In two years from today, a new President and Vice President will be sworn in in Washington, DC.

Today, inaugural trivia!

Length:

George Washington's was the shortest inaugural address at 135 words. (1793)

William H. Harrison's was the longest inaugural address at 8,445 words. (1841)

Washington served 8 years, Harrison served one month. Inverse relationship??


Traditions and when they were established:

Thomas Jefferson was the only president to walk to and from his inaugural. He was also the first to be inaugurated at the Capitol. (1801) - This tradition of walking at least part of the way can therefore be attributed to Jefferson.

The first inaugural ball was held for James Madison. (1809) - This has now become an absolute fixture in american electoral politics.

John Quincy Adams was the first president sworn in wearing long trousers (1825).



McKinley's second inauguration in 1901 was the first year in which the Senate and the HOR made the inaugural announcement together, as a team.

James Garfield's mother was the first to attend her son's inauguration (1881) and William Taft's wife was the first one to accompany her husband in the procession from the Capitol to the White House. (1909)

- Can you imagine an inauguration today without family being there?

Warren G. Harding was the first president to ride to and from his inaugural in an automobile. (1921)



Exceptions to the "rule":

Taft's outdoor inauguation in 1909 was cancelled because of a massive blizzard. It was quickly moved indoors, to the Senate.

Franklin Pierce was the first president to affirm rather than swear the oath of office (1853). Herbert Hoover followed suit in 1929.

Calvin Coolidge's oath in 1925 was administered by Chief Justice (and ex-president) William Taft. It was also the first inaugural address broadcast on the radio. Coolidge was sworn in by his father, a notary public, when he assumed the presidency in 1923 after Warren Harding's death. He is the only president ever to have been sworn in by his own father, and then, sworn in by a former President.

Lyndon Johnson was the first (and so far) only president to be sworn in by a woman, U.S. District Judge Sarah T. Hughes. (1963)

Jimmy Carter's inaugural parade featured solar heat for the reviewing stand and handicap-accessible viewing. (1977)

Five Presidents, all former Vice-Presidents, were never inaugurated: John Tyler (1841), Millard Fillmore (1850), Andrew Johnson (1865), Chester A. Arthur (1881) and Gerald R. Ford (1974). In fact, Gerald R. Ford holds a special, one-time only statistic: the only non-elected Vice-President who went on to become our only non-elected President, and in both cases, there was no inauguration.



Media coverage of inaugurations:

James Polk's inauguration was the first Inauguration covered by telegraph and also the first known Inauguration featured in a newspaper illustration; illustration appeared in the Illustrated London News. (1845)

The first inauguration to be photographed was James Buchanan's. (1857)

William McKinley's inauguration was the first ceremony to be recorded by a motion picture camera. (1897)

Theodore Roosevelt's inauguration (1905) was the first one where telephone lines had been installed and the press could telephone the story out instead of telegraphing it.

Calvin Coolidge's inauguration was the first Inaugural ceremony broadcast nationally by radio. (1925)

Harry Truman's was the first to be televised. (1949)

The first ceremony broadcast on the Internet was Bill Clinton's second inauguration. (1997)


Historical firsts that influenced history:

Abraham Lincoln was the first to include African-Americans in his parade. (1865)

Women were included for the first time in Woodrow Wilson's second inaugural parade. (1917)



Other interesting factoids:


John Kennedy's inauguration had Robert Frost as the first poet to participate in the official ceremony. (1961) The only other President to feature poets was Bill Clinton. Maya Angelou read at his 1993 inaugural, and Miller Williams read at his second, in 1997. (1961)

Ronald Reagan's second inaugural had to compete with Super Bowl Sunday. (1985)
It was also the coldest Inauguration day on record, with a noon temperature of 7°F.

The Vice-Presidential oath is LONGER than the presidential oath.


Repeating the oath:

On the second day of his presidency, Barack Obama was sworn in a second time by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. because, following Roberts's lead, Obama improperly recited the oath. He said, "I will execute the office of president to the United States faithfully." The word "faithfully" belongs between "will" and "execute." (2009).

Five presidents took a private oath when Inauguration Day fell on a Sunday, and then a second oath in a scheduled public ceremony on the next day (Monday): Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877 (who actually took the private oath on March 3, a Saturday, one day before his term started),Woodrow Wilson in 1917, Dwight Eisenhower in 1957, Ronald Reagan in 1985, and Barack Obama in 2013.

This makes Barack Obama the only president in history to take the oath of office twice for each inauguration and technically ties him with FDR for the number of oaths taken (4).

Presidents Chester A. Arthur (1881) and Calvin Coolidge (1923) took their first oath in a private venue (their residences), in the middle of the night, immediately after being notified of the death of a predecessor (James A. Garfield and Warren G. Harding, respectively). They later retook the oath after returning to Washington. In the case of Coolidge, there was an additional doubt whether an oath administered by a public notary (Coolidge's father) was valid.

All but six presidents took the presidential oath in Washington, D.C.The exceptions were:

• George Washington—1789, New York City; 1793, Philadelphia
• John Adams—1797, Philadelphia
• Chester Alan Arthur—1881, New York City
• Theodore Roosevelt—1901, Buffalo
• Calvin Coolidge—1923, Plymouth, Vt.
• Lyndon Baines Johnson—1963, Dallas

At leat one Vice President did not take the vice-presidential oath in Washington: W. Rufus King. He was convalescing from a deadly illness in Cuba at the time of the inauguration and took the oath in Cuba. He died from his illness 6 weeks later, at home in Chestnut Hill, and never set foot in Washington as Vice President.

Now, these are only the beginning factoids, there are many, many more...

Sources: many and various, a lot from memory!

I believe according to the Constitution, the VP automatically becomes President upon the death or disability of the POTUS, which makes those emergency-oaths unnecessary. I think LBJ knew that too.

 

[Statistikhengst]

January 20, 2015.

In two years from today, a new President and Vice President will be sworn in in Washington, DC.

Today, inaugural trivia!

Length:

George Washington's was the shortest inaugural address at 135 words. (1793)

William H. Harrison's was the longest inaugural address at 8,445 words. (1841)

Washington served 8 years, Harrison served one month. Inverse relationship??


Traditions and when they were established:

Thomas Jefferson was the only president to walk to and from his inaugural. He was also the first to be inaugurated at the Capitol. (1801) - This tradition of walking at least part of the way can therefore be attributed to Jefferson.

The first inaugural ball was held for James Madison. (1809) - This has now become an absolute fixture in american electoral politics.

John Quincy Adams was the first president sworn in wearing long trousers (1825).



McKinley's second inauguration in 1901 was the first year in which the Senate and the HOR made the inaugural announcement together, as a team.

James Garfield's mother was the first to attend her son's inauguration (1881) and William Taft's wife was the first one to accompany her husband in the procession from the Capitol to the White House. (1909)

- Can you imagine an inauguration today without family being there?

Warren G. Harding was the first president to ride to and from his inaugural in an automobile. (1921)



Exceptions to the "rule":

Taft's outdoor inauguation in 1909 was cancelled because of a massive blizzard. It was quickly moved indoors, to the Senate.

Franklin Pierce was the first president to affirm rather than swear the oath of office (1853). Herbert Hoover followed suit in 1929.

Calvin Coolidge's oath in 1925 was administered by Chief Justice (and ex-president) William Taft. It was also the first inaugural address broadcast on the radio. Coolidge was sworn in by his father, a notary public, when he assumed the presidency in 1923 after Warren Harding's death. He is the only president ever to have been sworn in by his own father, and then, sworn in by a former President.

Lyndon Johnson was the first (and so far) only president to be sworn in by a woman, U.S. District Judge Sarah T. Hughes. (1963)

Jimmy Carter's inaugural parade featured solar heat for the reviewing stand and handicap-accessible viewing. (1977)

Five Presidents, all former Vice-Presidents, were never inaugurated: John Tyler (1841), Millard Fillmore (1850), Andrew Johnson (1865), Chester A. Arthur (1881) and Gerald R. Ford (1974). In fact, Gerald R. Ford holds a special, one-time only statistic: the only non-elected Vice-President who went on to become our only non-elected President, and in both cases, there was no inauguration.



Media coverage of inaugurations:

James Polk's inauguration was the first Inauguration covered by telegraph and also the first known Inauguration featured in a newspaper illustration; illustration appeared in the Illustrated London News. (1845)

The first inauguration to be photographed was James Buchanan's. (1857)

William McKinley's inauguration was the first ceremony to be recorded by a motion picture camera. (1897)

Theodore Roosevelt's inauguration (1905) was the first one where telephone lines had been installed and the press could telephone the story out instead of telegraphing it.

Calvin Coolidge's inauguration was the first Inaugural ceremony broadcast nationally by radio. (1925)

Harry Truman's was the first to be televised. (1949)

The first ceremony broadcast on the Internet was Bill Clinton's second inauguration. (1997)


Historical firsts that influenced history:

Abraham Lincoln was the first to include African-Americans in his parade. (1865)

Women were included for the first time in Woodrow Wilson's second inaugural parade. (1917)



Other interesting factoids:


John Kennedy's inauguration had Robert Frost as the first poet to participate in the official ceremony. (1961) The only other President to feature poets was Bill Clinton. Maya Angelou read at his 1993 inaugural, and Miller Williams read at his second, in 1997. (1961)

Ronald Reagan's second inaugural had to compete with Super Bowl Sunday. (1985)
It was also the coldest Inauguration day on record, with a noon temperature of 7°F.

The Vice-Presidential oath is LONGER than the presidential oath.


Repeating the oath:

On the second day of his presidency, Barack Obama was sworn in a second time by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. because, following Roberts's lead, Obama improperly recited the oath. He said, "I will execute the office of president to the United States faithfully." The word "faithfully" belongs between "will" and "execute." (2009).

Five presidents took a private oath when Inauguration Day fell on a Sunday, and then a second oath in a scheduled public ceremony on the next day (Monday): Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877 (who actually took the private oath on March 3, a Saturday, one day before his term started),Woodrow Wilson in 1917, Dwight Eisenhower in 1957, Ronald Reagan in 1985, and Barack Obama in 2013.

This makes Barack Obama the only president in history to take the oath of office twice for each inauguration and technically ties him with FDR for the number of oaths taken (4).

Presidents Chester A. Arthur (1881) and Calvin Coolidge (1923) took their first oath in a private venue (their residences), in the middle of the night, immediately after being notified of the death of a predecessor (James A. Garfield and Warren G. Harding, respectively). They later retook the oath after returning to Washington. In the case of Coolidge, there was an additional doubt whether an oath administered by a public notary (Coolidge's father) was valid.

All but six presidents took the presidential oath in Washington, D.C.The exceptions were:

• George Washington—1789, New York City; 1793, Philadelphia
• John Adams—1797, Philadelphia
• Chester Alan Arthur—1881, New York City
• Theodore Roosevelt—1901, Buffalo
• Calvin Coolidge—1923, Plymouth, Vt.
• Lyndon Baines Johnson—1963, Dallas

At leat one Vice President did not take the vice-presidential oath in Washington: W. Rufus King. He was convalescing from a deadly illness in Cuba at the time of the inauguration and took the oath in Cuba. He died from his illness 6 weeks later, at home in Chestnut Hill, and never set foot in Washington as Vice President.

Now, these are only the beginning factoids, there are many, many more...

Sources: many and various, a lot from memory!

I believe according to the Constitution, the VP automatically becomes President upon the death or disability of the POTUS, which makes those emergency-oaths unnecessary. I think LBJ knew that too.

I am not sure sure that the Constitution says that:

Transcript of the Constitution of the United States - Official Text

"Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:—"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.""

Article II,section VI is the first part of the Constitution that deals with succession:

Article Two of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia


"In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected."

Section 8 comes after section 6, so I think it is pretty clear that whoever becomes president, by any means, must take the oath. Now, I could be wrong, but it sure looks that way to me. Let's ask Dante - our Constutitional Monsterman in USMB.

 

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January 22, 2015: Virtual Folding

Conventional wisdom says that it's physically impossible to fold a piece of paper in half more than 7 times. However, a virtual study with computer showed that if we were were able to keep folding it (and therefore doubling it's thickness), according to math, the concentrated paper would grow in width to astronomic proportions:

10 folds: width of a hand
12 folds: height of a stool
14 folds: Average adult height
20 folds: quarter of the Sears Tower
25 folds: height of the Matterhorn
30 folds: outer atmosphere of the Earth
50 folds: distance to our Sun
70 folds: 11 light years away from Earth
100 folds: radius of the known Universe

 

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January 20, 2015.

In two years from today, a new President and Vice President will be sworn in in Washington, DC.

Today, inaugural trivia!

Length:

George Washington's was the shortest inaugural address at 135 words. (1793)

William H. Harrison's was the longest inaugural address at 8,445 words. (1841)

Washington served 8 years, Harrison served one month. Inverse relationship??


Traditions and when they were established:

Thomas Jefferson was the only president to walk to and from his inaugural. He was also the first to be inaugurated at the Capitol. (1801) - This tradition of walking at least part of the way can therefore be attributed to Jefferson.

The first inaugural ball was held for James Madison. (1809) - This has now become an absolute fixture in american electoral politics.

John Quincy Adams was the first president sworn in wearing long trousers (1825).



McKinley's second inauguration in 1901 was the first year in which the Senate and the HOR made the inaugural announcement together, as a team.

James Garfield's mother was the first to attend her son's inauguration (1881) and William Taft's wife was the first one to accompany her husband in the procession from the Capitol to the White House. (1909)

- Can you imagine an inauguration today without family being there?

Warren G. Harding was the first president to ride to and from his inaugural in an automobile. (1921)



Exceptions to the "rule":

Taft's outdoor inauguation in 1909 was cancelled because of a massive blizzard. It was quickly moved indoors, to the Senate.

Franklin Pierce was the first president to affirm rather than swear the oath of office (1853). Herbert Hoover followed suit in 1929.

Calvin Coolidge's oath in 1925 was administered by Chief Justice (and ex-president) William Taft. It was also the first inaugural address broadcast on the radio. Coolidge was sworn in by his father, a notary public, when he assumed the presidency in 1923 after Warren Harding's death. He is the only president ever to have been sworn in by his own father, and then, sworn in by a former President.

Lyndon Johnson was the first (and so far) only president to be sworn in by a woman, U.S. District Judge Sarah T. Hughes. (1963)

Jimmy Carter's inaugural parade featured solar heat for the reviewing stand and handicap-accessible viewing. (1977)

Five Presidents, all former Vice-Presidents, were never inaugurated: John Tyler (1841), Millard Fillmore (1850), Andrew Johnson (1865), Chester A. Arthur (1881) and Gerald R. Ford (1974). In fact, Gerald R. Ford holds a special, one-time only statistic: the only non-elected Vice-President who went on to become our only non-elected President, and in both cases, there was no inauguration.



Media coverage of inaugurations:

James Polk's inauguration was the first Inauguration covered by telegraph and also the first known Inauguration featured in a newspaper illustration; illustration appeared in the Illustrated London News. (1845)

The first inauguration to be photographed was James Buchanan's. (1857)

William McKinley's inauguration was the first ceremony to be recorded by a motion picture camera. (1897)

Theodore Roosevelt's inauguration (1905) was the first one where telephone lines had been installed and the press could telephone the story out instead of telegraphing it.

Calvin Coolidge's inauguration was the first Inaugural ceremony broadcast nationally by radio. (1925)

Harry Truman's was the first to be televised. (1949)

The first ceremony broadcast on the Internet was Bill Clinton's second inauguration. (1997)


Historical firsts that influenced history:

Abraham Lincoln was the first to include African-Americans in his parade. (1865)

Women were included for the first time in Woodrow Wilson's second inaugural parade. (1917)



Other interesting factoids:


John Kennedy's inauguration had Robert Frost as the first poet to participate in the official ceremony. (1961) The only other President to feature poets was Bill Clinton. Maya Angelou read at his 1993 inaugural, and Miller Williams read at his second, in 1997. (1961)

Ronald Reagan's second inaugural had to compete with Super Bowl Sunday. (1985)
It was also the coldest Inauguration day on record, with a noon temperature of 7°F.

The Vice-Presidential oath is LONGER than the presidential oath.


Repeating the oath:

On the second day of his presidency, Barack Obama was sworn in a second time by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. because, following Roberts's lead, Obama improperly recited the oath. He said, "I will execute the office of president to the United States faithfully." The word "faithfully" belongs between "will" and "execute." (2009).

Five presidents took a private oath when Inauguration Day fell on a Sunday, and then a second oath in a scheduled public ceremony on the next day (Monday): Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877 (who actually took the private oath on March 3, a Saturday, one day before his term started),Woodrow Wilson in 1917, Dwight Eisenhower in 1957, Ronald Reagan in 1985, and Barack Obama in 2013.

This makes Barack Obama the only president in history to take the oath of office twice for each inauguration and technically ties him with FDR for the number of oaths taken (4).

Presidents Chester A. Arthur (1881) and Calvin Coolidge (1923) took their first oath in a private venue (their residences), in the middle of the night, immediately after being notified of the death of a predecessor (James A. Garfield and Warren G. Harding, respectively). They later retook the oath after returning to Washington. In the case of Coolidge, there was an additional doubt whether an oath administered by a public notary (Coolidge's father) was valid.

All but six presidents took the presidential oath in Washington, D.C.The exceptions were:

• George Washington—1789, New York City; 1793, Philadelphia
• John Adams—1797, Philadelphia
• Chester Alan Arthur—1881, New York City
• Theodore Roosevelt—1901, Buffalo
• Calvin Coolidge—1923, Plymouth, Vt.
• Lyndon Baines Johnson—1963, Dallas

At leat one Vice President did not take the vice-presidential oath in Washington: W. Rufus King. He was convalescing from a deadly illness in Cuba at the time of the inauguration and took the oath in Cuba. He died from his illness 6 weeks later, at home in Chestnut Hill, and never set foot in Washington as Vice President.

Now, these are only the beginning factoids, there are many, many more...

Sources: many and various, a lot from memory!

I believe according to the Constitution, the VP automatically becomes President upon the death or disability of the POTUS, which makes those emergency-oaths unnecessary. I think LBJ knew that too.

I am not sure sure that the Constitution says that:

Transcript of the Constitution of the United States - Official Text

"Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:—"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.""

Article II,section VI is the first part of the Constitution that deals with succession:

Article Two of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia


"In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected."

Section 8 comes after section 6, so I think it is pretty clear that whoever becomes president, by any means, must take the oath. Now, I could be wrong, but it sure looks that way to me. Let's ask Dante - our Constutitional Monsterman in USMB.

I'm pretty sure I remember that "shall devolve" simply kicks in, otherwise there would be a period with no president. And I believe George H.W. Bush was President for something like eight hours while Reagan was incapacitated in 1981. Far as I know he didn't swear in for that period.

But check this out -- the clause before your first link -- watch the commas:

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
​

Taking the commas as they operate today this would mean a POTUS only had to be a citizen of the US "at the time of this Constitution". After that, no requirement is specified. Were the second comma not there, the rule would carry on past "the time of this Constitution". Of course that begs the question what "the time" means.

 

[Statistikhengst]

January 20, 2015.

In two years from today, a new President and Vice President will be sworn in in Washington, DC.

Today, inaugural trivia!

Length:

George Washington's was the shortest inaugural address at 135 words. (1793)

William H. Harrison's was the longest inaugural address at 8,445 words. (1841)

Washington served 8 years, Harrison served one month. Inverse relationship??


Traditions and when they were established:

Thomas Jefferson was the only president to walk to and from his inaugural. He was also the first to be inaugurated at the Capitol. (1801) - This tradition of walking at least part of the way can therefore be attributed to Jefferson.

The first inaugural ball was held for James Madison. (1809) - This has now become an absolute fixture in american electoral politics.

John Quincy Adams was the first president sworn in wearing long trousers (1825).



McKinley's second inauguration in 1901 was the first year in which the Senate and the HOR made the inaugural announcement together, as a team.

James Garfield's mother was the first to attend her son's inauguration (1881) and William Taft's wife was the first one to accompany her husband in the procession from the Capitol to the White House. (1909)

- Can you imagine an inauguration today without family being there?

Warren G. Harding was the first president to ride to and from his inaugural in an automobile. (1921)



Exceptions to the "rule":

Taft's outdoor inauguation in 1909 was cancelled because of a massive blizzard. It was quickly moved indoors, to the Senate.

Franklin Pierce was the first president to affirm rather than swear the oath of office (1853). Herbert Hoover followed suit in 1929.

Calvin Coolidge's oath in 1925 was administered by Chief Justice (and ex-president) William Taft. It was also the first inaugural address broadcast on the radio. Coolidge was sworn in by his father, a notary public, when he assumed the presidency in 1923 after Warren Harding's death. He is the only president ever to have been sworn in by his own father, and then, sworn in by a former President.

Lyndon Johnson was the first (and so far) only president to be sworn in by a woman, U.S. District Judge Sarah T. Hughes. (1963)

Jimmy Carter's inaugural parade featured solar heat for the reviewing stand and handicap-accessible viewing. (1977)

Five Presidents, all former Vice-Presidents, were never inaugurated: John Tyler (1841), Millard Fillmore (1850), Andrew Johnson (1865), Chester A. Arthur (1881) and Gerald R. Ford (1974). In fact, Gerald R. Ford holds a special, one-time only statistic: the only non-elected Vice-President who went on to become our only non-elected President, and in both cases, there was no inauguration.



Media coverage of inaugurations:

James Polk's inauguration was the first Inauguration covered by telegraph and also the first known Inauguration featured in a newspaper illustration; illustration appeared in the Illustrated London News. (1845)

The first inauguration to be photographed was James Buchanan's. (1857)

William McKinley's inauguration was the first ceremony to be recorded by a motion picture camera. (1897)

Theodore Roosevelt's inauguration (1905) was the first one where telephone lines had been installed and the press could telephone the story out instead of telegraphing it.

Calvin Coolidge's inauguration was the first Inaugural ceremony broadcast nationally by radio. (1925)

Harry Truman's was the first to be televised. (1949)

The first ceremony broadcast on the Internet was Bill Clinton's second inauguration. (1997)


Historical firsts that influenced history:

Abraham Lincoln was the first to include African-Americans in his parade. (1865)

Women were included for the first time in Woodrow Wilson's second inaugural parade. (1917)



Other interesting factoids:


John Kennedy's inauguration had Robert Frost as the first poet to participate in the official ceremony. (1961) The only other President to feature poets was Bill Clinton. Maya Angelou read at his 1993 inaugural, and Miller Williams read at his second, in 1997. (1961)

Ronald Reagan's second inaugural had to compete with Super Bowl Sunday. (1985)
It was also the coldest Inauguration day on record, with a noon temperature of 7°F.

The Vice-Presidential oath is LONGER than the presidential oath.


Repeating the oath:

On the second day of his presidency, Barack Obama was sworn in a second time by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. because, following Roberts's lead, Obama improperly recited the oath. He said, "I will execute the office of president to the United States faithfully." The word "faithfully" belongs between "will" and "execute." (2009).

Five presidents took a private oath when Inauguration Day fell on a Sunday, and then a second oath in a scheduled public ceremony on the next day (Monday): Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877 (who actually took the private oath on March 3, a Saturday, one day before his term started),Woodrow Wilson in 1917, Dwight Eisenhower in 1957, Ronald Reagan in 1985, and Barack Obama in 2013.

This makes Barack Obama the only president in history to take the oath of office twice for each inauguration and technically ties him with FDR for the number of oaths taken (4).

Presidents Chester A. Arthur (1881) and Calvin Coolidge (1923) took their first oath in a private venue (their residences), in the middle of the night, immediately after being notified of the death of a predecessor (James A. Garfield and Warren G. Harding, respectively). They later retook the oath after returning to Washington. In the case of Coolidge, there was an additional doubt whether an oath administered by a public notary (Coolidge's father) was valid.

All but six presidents took the presidential oath in Washington, D.C.The exceptions were:

• George Washington—1789, New York City; 1793, Philadelphia
• John Adams—1797, Philadelphia
• Chester Alan Arthur—1881, New York City
• Theodore Roosevelt—1901, Buffalo
• Calvin Coolidge—1923, Plymouth, Vt.
• Lyndon Baines Johnson—1963, Dallas

At leat one Vice President did not take the vice-presidential oath in Washington: W. Rufus King. He was convalescing from a deadly illness in Cuba at the time of the inauguration and took the oath in Cuba. He died from his illness 6 weeks later, at home in Chestnut Hill, and never set foot in Washington as Vice President.

Now, these are only the beginning factoids, there are many, many more...

Sources: many and various, a lot from memory!

I believe according to the Constitution, the VP automatically becomes President upon the death or disability of the POTUS, which makes those emergency-oaths unnecessary. I think LBJ knew that too.

I am not sure sure that the Constitution says that:

Transcript of the Constitution of the United States - Official Text

"Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:—"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.""

Article II,section VI is the first part of the Constitution that deals with succession:

Article Two of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia


"In Case of the Removal of the President from Office, or of his Death, Resignation, or Inability to discharge the Powers and Duties of the said Office, the Same shall devolve on the Vice President, and the Congress may by Law provide for the Case of Removal, Death, Resignation or Inability, both of the President and Vice President, declaring what Officer shall then act as President, and such Officer shall act accordingly, until the Disability be removed, or a President shall be elected."

Section 8 comes after section 6, so I think it is pretty clear that whoever becomes president, by any means, must take the oath. Now, I could be wrong, but it sure looks that way to me. Let's ask Dante - our Constutitional Monsterman in USMB.

I'm pretty sure I remember that "shall devolve" simply kicks in, otherwise there would be a period with no president. And I believe George H.W. Bush was President for something like eight hours while Reagan was incapacitated in 1981. Far as I know he didn't swear in for that period.

But check this out -- the clause before your first link -- watch the commas:

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
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Taking the commas as they operate today this would mean a POTUS only had to be a citizen of the US "at the time of this Constitution". After that, no requirement is specified. Were the second comma not there, the rule would carry on past "the time of this Constitution". Of course that begs the question what "the time" means.

Not necessary to take the office as "acting President", because the assumption is that the duly elected President will return to his duties, I believe.

Yepp, you caught a good one about natural born citizen!!! Outstanding.

 

[Statistikhengst]

January 23, 2015: disperse factoids

The United Parcel Service (UPS) was started by two teenagers.

Can you wiggle your pollex? Probably..... it's your thumb.

You eyes see the best in the middle of the day.

Your eye muscles move an average of 100,000 times a day.

 

[Statistikhengst]

January 24, 2015: ROCK PAPER SCISSORS -and- Lizard Mating Strategies -and- some bacterial behavior.

(yes, you read that correctly)

Did you know that there really, truly is an international governing body for ROCK PAPER SCISSORS? No shit. The "World Rock Paper Scissors Society" sets rules, holds an annual worldwide tournament, and since 1920, has published THINK THREE, an RPS strategy and lifestyle mag!!

RPS has different names across the world:

China: Jenken
Japan: Jan Ken Pon
Japan: Yakyuken (this is a STRIP POKER version of RPS!!!)
South of the USA: Roshambo (which I believe is the americanized spelling of Rouchambeau)
assorted pockets of the USA: Farrgling (yes, Farrgling.....)
German: Schick Schnack Schnuck
South Africa: Ching Chong Chow
France: (a version with 4 weapons): Pierre, Papier, ciseaux, puits (Rock, Paper, Scissors, Well)




Now, what does this have to do with Lizard Mating Strategies and/or some bacteria?

Well, there are some real analogies to the battle or RPS in nature:

Rock-paper-scissors - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Rock-paper-scissors - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

 

[Roadrunner]

Day 1: January 12, 2015

Topic 1: Statue Rats, Flying Carp, Winged Weasels, aka Pidgeons.

-Pidgeons are the only birds that don't have to lift their heads to swallow water.

-Racing pidgeons have been clocked at 110 mph.

-Homing pidgeons were used in both world wars to carry messages between troops and headquarters. They had a 98% success rate in missions flown.

-In the 17th century, pidgeon droppings were used to tan hides and to make gunpowder.





tomorrow: bizarre wills and testaments!

Day 1: January 12, 2015

Topic 1: Statue Rats, Flying Carp, Winged Weasels, aka Pidgeons.

-Pidgeons are the only birds that don't have to lift their heads to swallow water.

-Racing pidgeons have been clocked at 110 mph.

-Homing pidgeons were used in both world wars to carry messages between troops and headquarters. They had a 98% success rate in missions flown.

-In the 17th century, pidgeon droppings were used to tan hides and to make gunpowder.





tomorrow: bizarre wills and testaments!

Pidgeons?

I assume you mean pigeons?

 

[Statistikhengst]

Day 1: January 12, 2015

Topic 1: Statue Rats, Flying Carp, Winged Weasels, aka Pidgeons.

-Pidgeons are the only birds that don't have to lift their heads to swallow water.

-Racing pidgeons have been clocked at 110 mph.

-Homing pidgeons were used in both world wars to carry messages between troops and headquarters. They had a 98% success rate in missions flown.

-In the 17th century, pidgeon droppings were used to tan hides and to make gunpowder.





tomorrow: bizarre wills and testaments!

Day 1: January 12, 2015

Topic 1: Statue Rats, Flying Carp, Winged Weasels, aka Pidgeons.

-Pidgeons are the only birds that don't have to lift their heads to swallow water.

-Racing pidgeons have been clocked at 110 mph.

-Homing pidgeons were used in both world wars to carry messages between troops and headquarters. They had a 98% success rate in missions flown.

-In the 17th century, pidgeon droppings were used to tan hides and to make gunpowder.





tomorrow: bizarre wills and testaments!

Pidgeons?

I assume you mean pigeons?

Yes. It's an antiquated spelling, used mostly for names these days.

Pidgeon - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Statistikhengst]

January 25, 2015: Diamond factoids

On this day in 1905, 110 years ago, the largest diamond in the world was discovered: the Cullinan Diamond.

The word diamond comes from the Greek word adamas, meaning "the hardest steel".

Diamonds were first discovered and mined in ancient India, at least as far back as 5,000 years ago. It was not until 1866 that diamonds were authenticated in South Africa, with the finding of the Eureka Diamond near Hopetown in Cape Province.

Diamonds were first used in India for astrology.Only 20% of the world’s diamonds are suitable for jewelry. The other 80% are used for industrial purposes or discarded because they are not worth anything for any particular industry.
Most diamonds found are at least 1 billion years old according to scientists, approximately 1/4 of the age of our planet.
Diamonds are predominantly made up of pure carbon, much like the graphite once used for pencil lead. Impurities in the carbon lead to colored diamonds. For instance, nitrogen causes the yellow color of some diamonds. There are very few completely colorless diamonds.

Cool white dwarfs (dying stars) have a diamond core. See: "Lucy" below...Most industrial diamonds are used as abrasives. However, small amounts of diamond are used in other applications, such as diamond windows, diamond speaker domes, heat sinks, low-friction microbearings,military technology.

As of 2005, diamonds are not the hardest substance on the Earth. In that year, physicists Natalia Dubrovinskaia and colleagues compressed carbon fullerene molecules and heating them at the same time to create a series of interconnected rods called Aggregated Diamond Nanorods (ADNRs or "hyperdiamond"). It's about 11% harder than a diamond.

Scientists have also discovered a diamond Star: 10 billion, billion, trillion carots. The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus.It's the compressed heart of an old star that was once bright like our Sun but has since faded and shrunk.Astronomers have decided to call the star "Lucy" after the Beatles song, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

 

[Pogo]

Yabbut Superman can make diamonds out of coal with his super strength.

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[Statistikhengst]

January 26, 2015: Microcosmic Storage Unit

Math geeks, to the front of the class!!!

You can fit 600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms in a standard-sized thimble.

Let's break that down: that's 600,000 with 6 additional sets of 3 "0"s a piece behind it, each time multipling the value of 600,000 by 1,000:

Here we go:

600,000,000 (600 million) - 1st set

600,000,000,000 (600 billion) - 2nd set

600,000,000,000,000 (600 trillion) - 3rd set

600,000,000,000,000,000 (6,000 trillion) - 4th set

600,000,000,000,000,000,000 (600,000 trillion) - 5th set

600,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (600 million trillion) - 6th set!

Let's put that into perspective: if exactly 6,000,000,000 (6 billion) people were to help count up to 600 million trillion, then each one of those people would have to count 100,000,000,000,000 atoms, or 100 trillion atoms.

Now, assuming that a human could count 5 numbers per second without ever taking a breath and without ever resting:

31,557,660 seconds in one year (counted at 365.25 day).

100,000,000,000,000 / 31,557,660 / 5 (for the five digits per second, never stopping, ever) = 633,760.55 years per person to count every atom that can fit inside just one ordinary thimble. That's a little less than 634 thousand years, or 317 times the time span since Christ walked the face of the earth. Tempus fugit!

 

[Pogo]

January 23, 2015: disperse factoids

The United Parcel Service (UPS) was started by two teenagers.

Can you wiggle your pollex? Probably..... it's your thumb.

You eyes see the best in the middle of the day.

Your eye muscles move an average of 100,000 times a day.

Eye tests that look like magic

(will not embed as video -- don't know why)

 

[Statistikhengst]

January 23, 2015: disperse factoids

The United Parcel Service (UPS) was started by two teenagers.

Can you wiggle your pollex? Probably..... it's your thumb.

You eyes see the best in the middle of the day.

Your eye muscles move an average of 100,000 times a day.

Eye tests that look like magic

(will not embed as video -- don't know why)

Send the check to...

 

[Statistikhengst]

Pogo - did you like the microscopic storage unit ?

 

[Statistikhengst]

January 27, 2015: Mozart's birthday!

259 years ago today, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born.

Mozart was the 7th and only surviving son of of Leopold and Anna Marie Mozart.

Mozart was writing music before he could write words. He often wrote musical phrases while playing games with his friends.

Mozart was giving solo piano concerts as a professional at the age of 5.

Mozart was very good at mathematics and liked to scribble mathematical figures all over walls and table cloths, much to the dismay of his parents.

After one of the famous concerts he gave at Schloss (Castle) Schönbrunn in Vienna, young Mozart sprang into a certain lady's lap and asked her to marry him. Her name: Archduchess Marian Antonia, later known as Marie ("let them eat cake") Antoinette.

Mozart composed 33 symphonies between the age of 9 and 18.

He became a freemason in 1984 and lots of freemason symbology shows up in his last opera DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE (The Magic Flute), esp. the use of three repeated chords in B-flat major.

Mozart was into scatalogical humor. Gross. He like to write "poop" jokes to his cousins.

He perhaps died of kidney failure and was buried in a common grave with little fanfare.

On 27th January 2006, all the church bells in Salzburg were rung simultaneously at the exact hour of his birth, in honour of Mozart's 250th birthday.