 Mr. President, Mrs. Reagan, Mr. Vice President, Mrs. Bush, it's with great joy that I assure you on good authority that across our nation, right at this very moment, there are hundreds and yay thousands of believers who are joining us in this moment of solemn commitment, as they, on this Sunday morning, pray for you and this new administration. Let us join them in prayer now. Let us pray. Our Heavenly Father, we invoke your blessing on this very solemn occasion. We pray that this may be more than a formality. We pray, oh God, for all of us here and around our country, that this may be a splendid new time of commitment and dedication. Oh God, we pray that you will in particular fill Mr. Reagan and Mr. Bush with a new sense of their divine appointment and a new sense of your Holy Spirit within their lives, that they may know that they have been called by you. Oh God, our prayer is that your ways may be their ways, and your thoughts may be their thoughts, and they may live to the praise of your glory. This we pray our Father in the humble name of Jesus. Amen. Vice President, put your left hand on the Bible, please, and raise your right hand, and I will repeat after me. I, George Herbert Walker Bush, do solemnly swear 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, 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. On which I am about to enter. So help you, God. So help me, God. Place your left hand on the Bible, and raise your right hand, and repeat after me. I, Ronald Reagan, do solemnly swear. I, Ronald Reagan, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. So help me, God. So help me, God. My congratulations, sir. May the Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious unto you. May the Lord lift up the light of his countenance upon you, and give you and us peace now and forevermore. Amen.