Editing Vice President of the United States (section)

===Inauguration===

{{main|United States presidential inauguration}}
[[File:Johnson, Nixon, Agnew, Humphrey cropped.jpg|thumb|upright=1.05|Four vice presidents: (from left) outgoing president [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] (the 37th vice president), incoming president [[Richard Nixon]] (36th), ([[Everett Dirksen]] administering oath), incoming vice president [[Spiro Agnew]] (39th), and outgoing vice president [[Hubert Humphrey]] (38th), January 20, 1969]]

Pursuant to the [[Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Twentieth Amendment]], the vice president's term of office begins at noon on January 20, as does the president's.<ref>{{cite web| title=The Twentieth Amendment| last1=Larson| first1=Edward J.| last2=Shesol| first2=Jeff| url=https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendments/amendment-xx| work=The Interactive Constitution| publisher=The National Constitution Center| location=Philadelphia, Pennsylvania| access-date=June 15, 2018| archive-date=August 28, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190828202655/https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendments/amendment-xx| url-status=live}}</ref> The first presidential and vice presidential terms to begin on this date, known as [[United States presidential inauguration|Inauguration Day]], were the [[Second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt|second terms]] of President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] and Vice President [[John Nance Garner]] in 1937.<ref name=HHistory1201937>{{cite web|title=The First Inauguration after the Lame Duck Amendment: January 20, 1937|url=http://history.house.gov/HistoricalHighlight/Detail/35948?ret=True|publisher=Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives|location=Washington, D.C.|access-date=July 24, 2018|archive-date=July 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725033713/http://history.house.gov/HistoricalHighlight/Detail/35948?ret=True|url-status=live}}</ref> Previously, Inauguration Day was on March 4. As a result of the date change, both men's first terms (1933–1937) were short of four years by {{age in days|1937|1|20|1937|3|4}} days.<ref name=GPOCONAN20171021>{{cite web|title=Commencement of the Terms of Office: Twentieth Amendment|work=Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation|url=https://www.congress.gov/content/conan/pdf/GPO-CONAN-2017-10-21.pdf|publisher=United States Government Printing Office, Library of Congress|location=Washington, D.C.|pages=2297–98|access-date=July 24, 2018|archive-date=July 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725033538/https://www.congress.gov/content/conan/pdf/GPO-CONAN-2017-10-21.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

Also in 1937, the vice president's [[Oath of office of the vice president of the United States|swearing-in]] ceremony was held on the Inaugural platform on the [[United States Capitol|Capitol]]'s east front immediately before the president's [[Oath of office of the President of the United States|swearing in]]. Up until then, most vice presidents took the oath of office in the Senate chamber, prior to the president's swearing-in ceremony.<ref name=VPinaug>{{cite web|title=Vice President's Swearing-in Ceremony|website=inaugural.senate.gov|url=https://www.inaugural.senate.gov/days-events/vice-presidents-swearing-in-ceremony/index.html|publisher=Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies|location=Washington, D.C.|access-date=July 30, 2018|archive-date=September 18, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180918035818/https://www.inaugural.senate.gov/days-events/vice-presidents-swearing-in-ceremony/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Although the Constitution contains the specific wording of the presidential oath, it contains only a general requirement, in [[Article Six of the United States Constitution|Article{{spaces}}VI]], that the vice president and other government officers shall take an [[oath]] or [[Affirmation in law|affirmation]] to support the Constitution. The current form, which has been used since 1884 reads:

{{blockquote|I, (''first name last name''), do solemnly swear (or [[Affirmation in law|affirm]]) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.<ref>{{cite web|title=Oath of Office|url=https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Oath_Office.htm|website=senate.gov|publisher=Secretary of the Senate|location=Washington, D.C.|access-date=July 30, 2018|archive-date=July 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180728181228/https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/Oath_Office.htm|url-status=live}}</ref>}}