How Christian nationalism played a role in incorporating the phrase 'so help me God' in the presidential oath of office

"The best way to understand Griswold's mythic insertion of 'so help me God' into the presidential oath is through the lens of Christian nationalism..."

"Griswold's story was so thoroughly accepted that, through the 20th century, no one, including academic scholars, thought to question it..."

"Before 1854, there are no accounts of Washington saying 'so help me God' at the end of the oath - at least in the millions of print records covered by the databases..."

"My interest is in how quickly 'so help me God' became established in the American national memory..."

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