Out of "an abundance of caution", Barack Obama has taken the oath of office a second time because a word was out of sequence when he was sworn in on Tuesday.
The speech capped a whirlwind day in which the new governor took the official oath of office at midnight and, after sleeping about three hours, arose for a two-mile run through a chilly Albany rain.
During the ceremony, General Myers administered the oath of office to his successor, Marine Corps General Peter Pace.
In an unsual move - described by the White House as an "abundance of caution" - he was administered the oath of office a second time because a word was out of sequence when he was sworn in on Tuesday.
I've heard Williams will host at the oath of office to the President.
Obama is not the first President to retake the oath of office, according to the Yale law professor Akhil Reed Amar.
I think we need an oath of office that reflects the real reasons why British people love our country.
When I first took the oath of office as President 6 1/2 years ago, I made this sacred commitment, to " I will assume the solemn duty bestowed upon me by the people.."
On January 3, I sat in the Senate with Chelsea and the rest of Hillary's family as Al Gore administered the oath of office to new York's new senator.
At exactly noon, a stone-faced President Pervez Musharraf administered the oath of office to new Prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, who spent more than four years in jail under Mr. Musharraf's rule.
Barack Obama took the oath of office on the same King James Bible that had been used by Abraham Lincoln in 1861.
He died of the infection two months after he was shot. Vice President Arthur took the oath of office a few hours after the President's death.
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