Obama, U.S. President Vows Second Read Four Times

Obama, U.S. President Vows Second Read Four Times

                            

WASHINGTON DC, KOMPAS.com - President Barack Obama, according to the schedule will be sworn in for a second term on Monday (21/01/2012) local time. In Obama's inauguration will read out the oath of office.

By reading the oath of office, Obama will become the second U.S. president read out the oath of office four times after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Roosevelt , who led the United States during the Great Depression to World War II, has another historical record is the only U.S. president who ruled in the fourth term.

However, after the amendment of the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1951, which one it is U.S. presidential term limits, then closed already an opportunity for others to beat the record of President Roosevelt.

Well, then how can Obama say four times the oath of office?

By the time Obama was sworn in for the first term 2009, Chief Justice John Roberts incorrectly recited the words of the oath of office which was then repeated by Obama.

turned on behind the scenes, aides to Obama asked Judge Roberts coming back to the White House to repeat the oath of office without an error reading the word. So in the first term, Obama took the oath twice.

Now, the inauguration for a second term, Obama will do it twice. The cause is a matter of dates.

Under the 20th amendment to the U.S. Constitution the term of office of a president runs out at noon Jan. 20. However, according to tradition if that date falls on a Sunday, then the President should take the oath for the second time in public the next day.

At the first reading of the oath Sunday (20/01/2013), the Supreme Court again John Roberts, in a private ceremony attended only by immediate family of President Barack Obama and broadcast live from the Blue Room of the White House.

This time, no error occurred and all the procession was completed in less than one minute.

And on Monday (01/21/2013), Obama will take the oath again. He will raise his right hand and put his left hand on the Bible that once belonged to President Abraham Lincoln and black pegerakan hero Martin Luther King. And, Obama finally took the oath of office four.

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