![]() ![]() The hard 't' sound used at the end of President Biden's middle name is believed to be a result of English pronunciation of the original word. It was linked, with the suffix, to taps because the ends of fountain pipes were often decorated with a stylised sheep's head. ![]() The President started his trip by meeting. It comes from the name Robin - a proper name often given to shepherds and those who worked with sheep in the Middle Ages. CNN President Joe Biden on Saturday capped a four-day trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia, his first trip to the Middle East since taking office. The word robinet has an interesting etymology of its own. It comes from the French for 'tap' - robinet. She was a descendant of French Huguenots, who emigrated firstly to England and then to Pennsylvania. The R in Joseph R Biden stands for Robinette, and was his paternal grandmother's maiden name. Lyndon Johnson used a missal - a liturgical book containing all instructions and texts necessary for the celebration of Mass - when he was sworn-in following the assassination of John F Kennedy, as it was the only religious book that could be found on Air Force One. Only rarely has a new US President not used a bible at his investiture. Several presidents, including Jimmy Carter and George HW Bush, have used the bible that George Washington was sworn-in with in 1789. In 2009, Barack Obama was sworn in on the same bible used by Abraham Lincoln in 1861, and then used one that had been the property of Martin Luther King at his second ceremony.ĭonald Trump also used Lincoln's bible, stacked on top of one that had been his own maternal grandmother's. Biden consulted his top advisers, called the president of Poland and the NATO secretary general, and gathered fellow world leaders to deal with the crisis. Vice-President Kamala Harris chose to use two bibles for her investiture - one belonging to a friend she considers her 'second mother', and another that was once owned by Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court judge. Within hours in the middle of the night, Mr. His late son Beau used the same volume when he was sworn in as Attorney General of Delaware. President Biden has used the same bible at all his investitures since 1973, including seven times as senator of Delaware, twice as vice-president and now once as President. shares both his first name and his middle name with his father, Joseph Robinette Biden Sr., who passed away in 2002 at the age of 86. ![]()
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