President Lyndon Baines Johnson Inauguration
President Lyndon Baines Johnson Inauguration
President Lyndon Baines Johnson Inauguration January 20, 1965. Oath of Office
President Lyndon Baines Johnson Inauguration
DO NOT USE CU Text, Inauguration of the President of the United States of America at the National Capitol January Twentieth Nineteen Hundred Sixty-Five."
President Lyndon Baines Johnson Inauguration
TLS the White House. CU license plate, "Washington D.C. 1965 Presidential Inauguration." MS Lyndon Johnson & Lady Bird Johnson walking out w/aides of building getting into Secret Service vehicle w/ bulletproof bubble top & driving off. MCU photographers snapping pictures. High angle LS Presidential motorcade headed for Inauguration, Secret Service riding on black limousines. Panning TLS Lady Bird Johnson walking onto Inaugural platform. Nice 3/4 view LS U.S. Capitol Building, East Front on Inauguration Day. TLS Vice-President HUBERT H. HUMPHREY descending steps onto gallery platform, House Speaker JOHN MCCORMACK in tow.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson Inauguration
MS Presidential Seal. Tilting TLS President Lyndon Johnson descending steps, Hail to the Chief playing in audio BG; LBJ passes Secretary of State DEAN RUSK to shake hands w/ U.S. Chief Justice EARL WARREN. TLS crowd standing, applauding. MS Lady Bird Johnson walking through crowd. TLS Capitol Building. MS Speaker of the House JOHN MCCORMACK, pro-tempore CARL HAYDEN & HUBERT HUMPHREY walking down. MS crowd rising & applauding. MCU pan emblem, eagle w/arrows & olive branch, President LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON (Lyndon B. Johnson, Lyndon Johnson, LBJ) walking down.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson Inauguration
MCU Archbishop ROBERT E. LUCEY reading invocation, approaches podium, Johnson, & Humphrey behind w/ heads bowed, "Almighty & eternal god, we ask a blessing upon all who are gathered here today to honor the chief executive & the vice president of our nation." MS rearview blessing continued, "We pray that almighty god may grant the leader of our country wisdom and understanding, strength and courage, in these days of stress and strife, in the hour of fateful decision may God make clear to our President the path of honor and of peace, the path of freedom and justice, the path of brotherhood and truth, that truth that makes men free in it." TLS shaking hands.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson Inauguration
Humphrey approaches to take oath. MCU Vice-President HUBERT HUMPHREY (Hubert Horatio Humphrey) reads oath given by Speaker of the House JOHN MCCORMACK, President LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON (LBJ, Lyndon Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson) in BG, "I Hubert Horatio Humphrey do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic. That I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of which I am about to enter, so help me God." shakes hands w/ President Lyndon Johnson, then kisses his wife, MURIEL HUMPHREY BROWN, and then shakes hands with Lady Bird Johnson. TLS crowd standing, clapping.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson Inauguration
MCU man speaking, "The oath of office will now be administered to the President by the Chief Justice of the United States." TLS crowd. (Hail to the Chief playing) CU white male U.S. Marine in Dress B uniform saluting. MS U.S. Chief Justice EARL WARREN administering Presidential Oath of Office to LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON, (LBJ, Lyndon Johnson, Lyndon B. Johnson) First Lady LADY BIRD JOHNSON & Vice-President HUBERT H. HUMPHREY standing, watching in BG; "I Lyndon Baines Johnson do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of the Presidency of the United States and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect & defend the Constitution of the United States, so help me God." (Earl Warren & Lyndon Johnson are so casual about the affair that neither raises their right hand until the "faithfully execute" line.) MCU Johnson approaches podium, shuffle papers.