One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America (63 page)

J. Walter Thompson Company,
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Jackson, C. D. (publisher),
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Jaeger and Jessen Company,
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Jefferson, Thomas (president),
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Jepsen, Roger (senator),
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John Birch Society,
155–156
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Johnson, Lyndon B. (president),
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Johnson, William (editor-journalist),
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Johnston, Olin (senator),
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Judd, Walter (representative),
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Kehr, Ernest (columnist),
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Kelley, Dean (minister),
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Kemp, Jack (representative),
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Kennedy, John F. (president),
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Kennedy, Robert (attorney general-senator),
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Kent State shootings,
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Kerpelman, Leonard (attorney),
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Kerry, John (senator),
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Kertzer, David (anthropologist),
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Khrushchev, Nikita (Soviet premier),
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King, Martin Luther, Jr. (civil rights leader),
267–268

Knight, Goodwin (governor),
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Knights of Columbus,
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Knowland, William (senator),
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Kraft Foods,
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Krauthammer, Charles (columnist),
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LaGuardia, Fiorello (mayor),
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Lane, Rose Wilder (author),
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Langlie, Arthur (mayor-governor),
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Lantry, Walter (longshoreman),
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Latta, Del (representative),
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Leaming, Charles (minister),
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Lecoque, Ralph (parent),
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Leedom, Boyd (judge),
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Lefkowitz, David Jr. (rabbi),
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Lerner, Monroe (parent),
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LeTourneau, R. G. (executive),
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Lewis, Anthony (columnist),
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Lewis, Hobart (publisher),
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Lichtenstein, Dan and Ruth (parents),
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Lincoln, Abraham (president),
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104–105
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Lippmann, Walter (columnist),
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Long, Huey (senator),
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Lord, John Wesley (Methodist bishop),
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Luccock, Halford (minister),
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Luce, Henry (publisher),
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Lyons, Lenore (parent),
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MacArthur, Douglas (general),
28
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MacKenzie, Aeneas (screenwriter),
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A Man Called Peter
(film),
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Manion, Clarence (radio host-author),
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Mansfield, Mike (senator),
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March of Freedom,
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Mark A. Hanna Company,
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Marriott, J. Willard (executive),
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Marshall, Fred (representative),
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Marshall, Peter (minister),
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Martin, William (religious scholar),
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Marshall Field and Company,
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Massachusetts Citizens for Public Prayer,
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Matthews, Billy (representative),
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Maytag, Inc.,
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McBain, Hughston (executive),
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McCain, John (senator),
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McCarthy, Joseph (senator),
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McCormack, John (representative),
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McGrory, Mary (columnist),
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McIntire, Carl (minister),
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McIntyre, James Francis (Catholic archbishop),
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McWilliams, Carey (journalist),
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Memorial Day Massacre (1937),
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Meyer, Bernard (judge),
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Meyer, Frank S. (editor),
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Miller, Edward O. (minister),
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Miller, William Lee (theologian),
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Milliken, Roger (executive),
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Minton, Sherman (justice),
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Monroney, Mike (senator),
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Monsanto Chemical Company,
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Moody, Dwight (evangelist),
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Moore, Art, Jr. (representative),
219

Moral Majority,
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Morrison, William A. (representative),
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Morse, Wayne (senator),
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Mosk, Stanley (California attorney general),
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Multer, Abraham (representative),
118–119

Mundt, Karl (senator),
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Murphy, George (senator),
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Murray, Madalyn (parent),
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Murray v. Board of School Commissioners of Baltimore City
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National Association of Evangelicals (NAE),
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National Association of Manufacturers (NAM),
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44–46
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National Association of Religious Broadcasters (NARB),
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National Conference of Christians and Jews (NCCJ),
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National Council for Christian Leadership (NCCL),
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National Council of Churches (NCC),
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National Day of Prayer,
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National Flag Conference,
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National Labor Relations Board,
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National Lay Committee,
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National Prayer Breakfast,
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National Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.),
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National Reform Association,
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New Deal

     
advertising industry and,
130

     
Cecil B. DeMille and,
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clergy support for,
5–6

     
Dwight D. Eisenhower and,
86–87

     
J. Howard Pew and,
16

     
James W. Fifield's attacks on,
6–7
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11–14

     
NAM and,
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Ralph Flanders and,
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Social Gospel and,
5–6

     
Spiritual Mobilization and,
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New Testament, Gideon Bibles and,
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New York Avenue Presbyterian Church (Washington, D.C.),
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New York Board of Rabbis,
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New York Board of Regents,
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Newdow v. Elk Grove Unified School District
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Niebuhr, Reinhold (theologian),
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Nixon, Richard M. (president)

     
“Back to God” program,
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Billy Graham and,
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campaign donors,
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264–265

     
church services inside the White House,
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construction workers support,
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Earl Warren and,
246–247

     
Honor America Day,
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“In God We Trust” stamp,
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inauguration,
244–248

     
meeting antiwar protesters,
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National Prayer Breakfast,
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248–249

     
polarization of public religion,
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Statement of Seven Divine Freedoms,
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University of Tennessee appearance (1970),
260–263

Noerdlinger, Henry (researcher),
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North American Aviation,
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Novak, Robert (columnist),
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Oakman, Charles (representative),
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Obama, Barack (president),
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Olsen, Alec (representative),
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“One Nation Under God” banners,
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“One nation under God” motto,
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“One Nation Under God” postcards,
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Opinion Research Corporation,
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Opitz, Edmund A. (minister),
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“Our American Heritage” campaign,
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Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company,
9

Paper currency, “In God We Trust” motto,
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Paramount Pictures,
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Parochial schools,
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Paschall, H. Franklin (SBC president),
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Pastore, John (senator),
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Patriotism, piety and,
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Patterson, J. Renwick (minister),
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Peabody, Stuart (Advertising Council chairman),
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Peale, Norman Vincent (minister-author),
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Pearson, Drew (columnist),
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Pendergrast, J. Gilbert (judge),
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Penney, J. C. (executive),
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