Juramento de toma de posesión
On the request of the Congress, the President of the the United States can decree the title of Citoyen of honor of the United States of America to a personality which was not until there citizen of this country.
It is an exceptional privilege which was decreed up to now only six times, including four on a purely posthumous basis:
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1963 : Winston Churchill (1874-1965), former British Prime Minister.
- 1981 : Raoul Wallenberg (1912 -?) , diplomatic Swedish which helped to save extermination by the Nazi S during the Second world war some a hundred and thousand Juif S Hungarian.
- 1984 : William PEN (1644-1718), founder of the Pennsylvania.
- 1984 : Hannah Callowhill PEN (1671-1727), its second wife, administrator of the Pennsylvania.
- 1997 : Mother Teresa (1910-1997), the nun of Albanian origin , bienfaitrice of the Shantytown S of Calcutta.
- 2002 : Marquis of Fayette (1757-1834), French hero of the war of independence of the the United States.
This proclamation of honorary citizenship should not be confused with the procedure which allows in certain exceptional cases the Congress and the President to grant the citizenship ordinary from the United States of America by decree (" Private bill") .
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