• President Carter Takes the Oath of Office
    Library of Congress
    inaugurations
    U.S. Capitol
    Washington, D.C.
    Justices
    This photograph of Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of the Supreme Court administering the Oath of Office to Jimmy Carter on the east portico of United States Capitol was taken on January 20, 1977. Surround the two are First Lady Rosalynn Carter, outgoing President Gerald F. Ford, and newly sworn-in Vice President Walter F. Mondale.