First Woman to Administer the Presidential Oath Of Office- Dallas Texas
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Dallas Love Field the location that Dallas Judge Sarah T Hughes administered the oath of office of President of the United States to Lyndon B Johnson.
Waymark Code: WM5PK7
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/30/2009
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From Wikipedia:
Sarah Tilghman Hughes (August 2, 1896 – April 23, 1985) was an American lawyer and federal judge who swore-in Lyndon B. Johnson as President on Air Force One after the Kennedy assassination. She is the only woman in U.S. history to have sworn-in a U.S. President, a task usually executed by the Chief Justice of the United States.
Judge Hughes, lower left with back to camera, swears-in Lyndon B. Johnson as President of the United States. Photo by Cecil W. Stoughton.The photo of her administering the oath of office to Johnson remains the most famous photo ever taken aboard Air Force One, as Kenneth T. Walsh, White House correspondent for U.S. News & World Report, said in Air Force One: A History of the Presidents and Their Planes
Administering the oath of office
Two years into her tenure as a Federal District Judge, on November 22, 1963, she was called upon to administer the oath of office to Lyndon B. Johnson after the assassination of President Kennedy.
According to an interview[1] with Barefoot Sanders, who was United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas at the time:
“ LBJ called Irving Goldberg from the plane and asked, 'Who can swear me in?' Goldberg called me, and I said, 'Well, we know a federal judge can.' Then I got a call from the president's plane, with the command 'Find Sarah Hughes.' Coincidentally, Judge Hughes, Jan [Sanders' wife] and I [Sanders] were supposed to go to Austin that night for a dinner for President Kennedy. I reached her at home and said, 'They need you to swear in the vice president at Love Field. Please get out there.' She said, 'Is there an oath?' I said, 'Yes, but we haven't found it yet.' She said, 'Don't worry about it; I'll make one up.' She was very resourceful, you know. By the time she got to the airplane, someone had already called it into the plane. We quickly realized that it is in the Constitution.
FIRST - Classification Variable: Person or Group
Date of FIRST: 11/22/1963
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