Donald Trump will be the third US president to be sworn in on the Lincoln bible

Donald Trump will be the third US president to be sworn in on the Lincoln bible

The US presidential inauguration features several intriguing traditions, including the incoming president’s ability to choose a bible for his (or her) swearing-in. In advance of his own inauguration on Jan. 20, Donald J. Trump has picked the so-called “Lincoln bible”—a burgundy velvet-bound volume that was used during Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration in 1861—as well as a…