You John Fitzgerald Kennedy, do solemnly swear. I John Fitzgerald Kennedy, do solemnly swear. That you will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States. That I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States. And will to the best of your ability. And will to the best of my ability. Preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. So help do God. So help me God. All right. You're a little honorable. So help me. All right. You're a little honorable. You're a little honorable. That's too much. Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, Reverend clergy, fellow citizens. We observe today not a victory of party, but a celebration of freedom, symbolizing an end as well as a beginning, signifying renewal as well as change. Dry ashorn before you and Almighty God, the same solomoth, our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three quarters ago. The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary belief for which our forebears fought, our stillness you around the globe. The belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God. We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war.