Answers to previous post: Presidents' trivia

Have you picked your answers?  I didn't print all the discussion Mr. Davis supplied. You can find the rest online.

1. b. NYC was the temporary capital of the US when Washington took the oath on April 30, 1789.

2. c. Harrison’s speech in 1841 was more than 8,000 words long & took nearly 2 hours to deliver. [more]

                3. a. After JFK’s assassination, Johnson was sworn in aboard Air Force One by Sarah T. Hughes, a US district judge.

                4. a. At Lincoln’s 2^nd inauguration (1865) 4 companies of African-American troops & lodges of Masons and Odd Fellows joined the procession to the Capitol.

                5. b. Marshall administered the oath 9 times, from Jefferson’s 1^st inauguration (1801) to Andrew Jackson’s 2^nd (1833).

                6. c. The old March 4 inaugural date had been selected when travel & communications were much slower, & the “lame duck” period for the outgoing president rarely caused problems. [more]

                7. c. On Jan. 20 1985, Reagan took the oath privately in the Entrance Hall at the White House [then] went to the Map Room to flip the coin ... [more]

                8. c. Taft was appointed chief justice in 1921—8 years after his presidency--& administered the oath of office to both Coolidge (1925) & Hoover (1929).

                9. b. Roosevelt used an old family Bible written in Dutch at all 4 of his inaugurations.

                10. b. Coolidge was sworn in by his father, a justice of the peace, at the family homestead in rural Vermont on Aug. 3, 1923 … [more]

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