Letter From America, The pledge of allegiance
“…such was the fear of the time that from Moscow to Asia “godless Communism” might prevail.
President Eisenhower, many public men and women, used that phrase over and over.
And it was by executive order on Flag Day 1954 that President Eisenhower ordered the pledge now to read ‘I pledge allegiance to the flag’ and so on, ‘and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God indivisible.'”