During a luncheon hosted by members of Congress on Monday (Jan. 21), President Obama said it was a privilege to take the oath of office using Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s personal traveling Bible.
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“I had the great privilege that the Bible we used was his Bible and they asked for it to be inscribed,” he said. The other Bible used in the ceremony was owned by President Abraham Lincoln.
The 57th Presidential Inauguration landed not only on the MLK holiday, but also the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington and the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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And what’s done is done. Of course, Dr. Cornel West had a few reservations on Obama’s decision to use the Bible during his moment of “presidential pageantry…”
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