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President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn into office on the same Bible used to swear in President Barack Obama and a Bible given to him as a child.
The Presidential Inaugural Committee announced Tuesday that — in addition to using a Bible from his childhood — Trump will be sworn in with the Bible Abraham Lincoln used at his first inauguration.
President Barack Obama took the oath of office on the same Lincoln Bible in 2009 and 2015. He was the first president to be sworn in on the Lincoln Bible since Lincoln’s inauguration in 1861.
“In his first inaugural address, President Lincoln appealed to the ‘better angels of our nature,'” PIC Chairman Tom Barrack said in a statement. “As he takes the same oath of office 156 years later, President-elect Trump is humbled to place his hand on Bibles that hold special meaning both to his family and to our country.”
Hopefully someone from the Library of Congress will have eyes on the Lincoln Bible at all times.