Day of the Oath (1965)

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Inauguration Day 1929 the president was Herbert [Music] Hoover 4 years later President Hoover left the White House and turned the executive powers over to a President Who looms large in contemporary history President Franklin Delano Rosevelt with the beginning of an era President Roosevelt gave America new courage to face the crisis of the 1930s and fight for liberty during World War II [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I Frankton Delano Roosevelt do solemnly swear 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 so help me God it was President Franklin D Roosevelt for four consecutive [Music] terms in 1949 the architect of post-war reconstruction President Harry S Truman you Harry EST Truman who solemnly swear I har yes Truman do solemnly swear that you will Faithfully execute the office of President of the United States that I will Faithfully execute the office of President of the United States [Music] [Applause] in 1953 and again in 1957 Dwight D Eisenhower an immensely popular leader preserve protect and defend the Constitution of the United States so help you God so help me got [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I John Fitzgerald Kennedy you solemnly s that you will Faithfully execute the office of President of the United States that I will Faithfully execute the office of President of the United States and will to the best of your ability and will to the best of my [Applause] ability every four years the the presidents from George Washington to John F Kennedy have kept this Rendevous with the people on inauguration day 1965 it's the 36th president of the United States Lyndon Baines Johnson [Music] a [Music] [Applause] [Music] you lynon Baines Johnson do solemnly swear I Lyon Baines Johnson do solemnly swear that you will will Faithfully execute but I will Faithfully execute the office of the presidency of the United States the office of the presidency of the United States and will to the best of your ability and will to the best of my ability preserve protect and defend preserve protect and defend the Constitution of the United States the Constitution of the United States so help you God so help thank [Music] [Applause] God my fellow Countryman on this occasion the oath I have taken before you and before God is not mine alone but ours together we are one nation and one people Our Fate as a nation and our future as a people rests not not upon one citizen but upon all citizens that is the majesty and the meaning of this moment even now a rocket moves toward Mars it reminds us that the world will not be the same for our children or even for ourselves and in a short span of years there are possibilities enough for all who will abandon Mastery over others to pursue Mastery over nature there is World enough for all to seek their happiness in their own way our nation's course is abundantly clear we aspire to nothing that belongs to others we seek no dominion over our fellow man but man's dominion over tyranny and misery but more is required men want to be part of a common Enterprise a cause greater than themselves and each of us must find a way to advance the purpose of the nation thus find new purpose for ourselves for myself I ask only in the words of an ancient leader give me now wisdom and knowledge that I may go out and come in before this people for who can judge this thy people that is so great [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] the [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] pap a [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] a h [Music] [Applause] a [Music] [Applause] [Music] a [Applause] [Music] [Applause] from all over the world outstanding artists came to Washington to perform for the president in celebration of the inaugural [Music] spee [Music] [Music] for Hallelujah I for Hallelujah I said roll the Hallelujah I could the hallelu I the Hallelujah I the hallu [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] with a mandate from the people the words of a oath and a vision of the future a president begins a 4-year journey into history he follows in a tradition of leaders who were inventors inventors of the American Revolution the Constitution the Bill of Rights the Emancipation Proclamation the League of Nations the four freedom the Marshall Plan Atoms for Peace the alliance for Progress the Peace Corp and now the Great Society just as surely as 100 years ago President Lincoln had given his second inaugural 100 years from now in the year 2065 there will be another man upon the steps of the capital taking the same oath his name is unknown for he is yet to be born and he is yet to read of The Men Who came before him and he is yet to find out the American purpose but it is sure that in the winter of 20165 he will look back and say 100 years ago President Johnson stood in Washington he stood where I stand and lived in the house where I live and dreamed the dreams that I touch [Applause] h