With Malice Toward None
The Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Exhibition
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“I Do Solemnly Swear”
On March 4, 1861 Chief Justice Roger B. Taney administered the oath of office as president of the United States to Abraham Lincoln. The Bible was provided by William Thomas Carroll, Clerk of the Supreme Court, because the Lincolns' family Bible was packed with other belongings that were traveling from Springfield. On January 20, 2009, the Bible was used a second time at the historic inauguration of President Barack Obama.