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INAUGURAL NOTES: The Democrats reclaimed the White
House in the 1976 election. The Governor from Georgia defeated Gerald
Ford, who had become President on August 9, 1974, upon the resignation
of President Nixon. The oath of office was taken on the Bible used in
the first inauguration by George | Washington; it was administered by
Chief Justice Warren Burger on the East Front of the Capitol. The new
President and his family surprised the spectators by walking from the
Capitol to the White House after the ceremony.
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