At 735 pm, Roberts administred the oath of office again to obama in the map room. Robert gibbs said the wh counsel, greg craig, believes the oath was fine Tuesday, but one word was out of sequence so they did this out of a "an abundance of caution." "We decided it was so much fun..." Obama joked while sitting on a couch. Obama stood and walked over to make small talk with pool as roberts donned his black robe. "Are you ready to take the oath?" Roberts asked. "I am, and we're going to do it very slowly," obama replied. Oath took 25 seconds. After a flawless recitation, roberts smiled and said, "congratulations, again." Obama said, "thank you, sir." Smattering of applause. "All right." Obama said. "The bad news for the pool is there's 12 more balls."
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It’s official, Obama is now the 43rd person to be sworn in as president. (For some reason, Cleveland is double counted for his non consecutive terms.) Of course, any judge would have sufficed. To my knowledge, only other president to have been sworn in twice is Calvin Coolidge, who was initially sworn in by his father, a notary public. When he returned to DC from what had initially been a quiet vacation for the then Vice President, Coolidge was sworn in by a Federal Judge.