The legal adviser of the White House forced Obama to swear again. Yesterday he really was mistaken

Barack Obama was re -offered on January 21 as a new US president, but now in the White House. The oath, as for the first time, was accepted by the chairman of the Supreme Court John Roberts.

The procedure was held in the "cartographic room" of the White House. The television journalists and photographers, however, were not allowed there.

The fact is that when Obama pronounces the oath a day earlier on the steps of the Capitol, a small mistake was made. The Chairman of the Supreme Court, who read the text, lost a little from excitement and violated the order of words, and Obama was forced to repeat him incorrectly.

Therefore, as the legal adviser of the White House Greg Craig told reporters, it was decided for references to repeat the procedure for bringing to the oath to correct the error and thereby prevent possible legal conflicts. Still, the words of the oath are not some kind of abstract text: they are recorded in the Constitution of the country.

According to local experts, there was no great need for such reinsurance.

In the history of the United States, this is a rather unusual case, ITAR-TASS notes. True, the two US presidents - Kalvin Culidge and Chester Arthur - had to take the oath in similar situations.

Obama himself at that moment was in a good mood. “We decided (repeat the procedure), because you get such a great pleasure from this,” he joked in an interview with journalists.

“Are you ready to take the oath?” The Supreme Judge Roberts asked the president. “Yes, ready,” Obama answered. - And (now) we will do it very slowly. "This time everything went smoothly.

A day earlier, the inauguration ceremony of the 44th President of the United States took place on the steps of the Capitol. “I, Barack Hussein Obama, solemnly swear that I will honestly act as the president of the United States and, as much as my strength, protect, protect and maintain the Constitution of the United States. And may God help me,” he said then the traditional formula for the oath.

Another small mistake of the 44th American president made in his inaugural speech, which he uttered immediately after the oath. “By this moment, 44 Americans were accepted by the presidential oath,” Obama reminded (Notesru.com approx. This is not entirely true. The fact is that only 43 people gave the oath, since President Cleveland swore in 1885 and 1893).