If Obama wants to stress that theme again on January 20, he may prefer to follow Bill Clinton's lead from the 1997 inaugural and open the Bible to Isaiah 58:12: "Thou shalt raise up the ...

President Obama will take the oath of office with two Bibles that once belonged to a pair of civil rights icons: Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. King's "traveling Bible" was provided by ...

Obama, in fact, twice used the Lincoln Bible — a burgundy, velvet-bound book that was serendipitously used in the 16th president’s inauguration because his “family Bible was packed with ...

President-elect Barack Obama will use the same Bible that Abraham Lincoln used at his inauguration when he takes the oath of office in January.

President Obama was the first president after Lincoln to use it, in both of his inaugurations. For his second inauguration in 2013, he also used a bible belonging to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

President Obama says he never compares himself to Abraham Lincoln, but he'll be sworn in again with President Lincoln's Bible at his inauguration on Jan. 21.

Obama, just like at his first inauguration in 2009, will use a Bible owned by President Lincoln as he is sworn in, according to the Presidential Inaugural Committee.

During President Obama’s swearing-in in 2009, Michelle Obama held the Bible used by Abraham Lincoln at his inauguration in 1861. (Dennis Brack/Bloomberg News) ...

Barack Obama will take the oath of office using the same Bible that Abraham Lincoln was sworn in on at his first inauguration, marking the President-elect's latest symbolic gesture to follow in ...

The Presidential Inaugural Committee announced this morning that Barack Obama will be sworn into office on the same Bible used by Abraham Lincoln at his first inauguration in 1861.

The Lincoln Bible was used by Presidents Obama and Trump. The Lincoln Bible, which is stored at the Library of Congress, is the one used by Abraham Lincoln at his first inauguration in 1861.