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Would you be surprised to learn that \u201cGod bless America\u201d isn\u2019t a standard closing for official speeches by U.S. presidents? In fact, the phrase wasn\u2019t publicly used by a president until 1973 when Richard Nixon appealed to the American public in the face of the escalating Watergate scandal, according to the new book profiled by Huffington Post, The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America.<\/p>\n

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