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Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as the governor of California with wife, Maria Shriver, holding a 192-year-old Kennedy family Bible. However, it was not the bible used when John F. Kennedy took his oath as President. That one was actually a Fitzgerald family Bible, brought over from Ireland. It is described on the Kennedy Library website: “The Bible is an 1850 Edition of the Douay English translation containing a handwritten chronicle of the Fitzgerald family from 1857, including a record of the birth of John Fitzgerald Kennedy on May 29, 1917.”

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