# Why should "In God We Trust" be on our currency? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [April 2, 2013, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-should-in-god-we-trust-be-on-our-currency/654633 "2013-04-02T16:07:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 180
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2013, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-should-in-god-we-trust-be-on-our-currency/654633/180 "2013-04-07T05:55:07Z")
> [@NotfooledbyW](#): > > you were the one apparently not familiar with the fact that Nixon appealed to the Silent Majority in 1968 many times prior to the date that the phrase “Silent Majority” was coined in after the election. That’s an extremely stupid comment since I never said he didn’t. I merely pointed out that his famous “Silent Majority” speech wasn’t made until 1969 and it was only then that the phrase became popularly known. That’s in stark contrast to your initial post on the supposed events of 1969. > [@](#): > > August - Riots break out in Miami… Nixon calls the urgent need for LAW and ORDER. How the Sixties generation dressed during all this would seem to me to be quite trivial at best. NIXON/AGNEW win GOP nomination. **Nixon appeals to the SILENT MAJORITY**. Humphey wins nomination in Chicago. wallace campaign gains momentum by appealing to White Voters and returning schools to local control in appeal to those opposed to forced busing. But Wallace also picks General Curtis LeMay (bomb Vietnam back to the stone ages) and his campaign begins to falter. Of course by your own admission, had you claimed in 1968 that Nixon appealed to “the Silent Majority” they wouldn’t have known what you were talking about because he didn’t make his “Silent Majority” speech until over a year later. The closest you come to is a reference to a “silent center” which never caught on. > [@](#): > > (C) A typo is a massive mistake? You didn’t make a typo. You revealed that you thought that the ARVN was the army of the North Vietnamese government. > [@](#): > > I don’t know what the second ‘massive mistake’ might be. As already pointed to, you foolishly claimed that Nixon made his “Silent Majority” speech in 1968 when in fact, he didn’t make it until November of 1969, a year after he was in office. Here is an excerpt from Nixon’s famous “Silent Majority” speech. > [@](#): > > … > Two hundred years ago this Nation was weak and poor. But even then, America was the hope of millions in the world. Today we have become the strongest and richest nation in the world. And the wheel of destiny has turned so that any hope the world has for the survival of peace and freedom will be determined by whether the American people have the moral stamina and the courage to meet the challenge of free world leadership. > Let historians not record that when America was the most powerful nation in the world we passed on the other side of the road and allowed the last hopes for peace and freedom of millions of people to be suffocated by the forces of totalitarianism. > **And so tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask for your support.** [http://watergate.info/1969/11/03/nixons-silent-majority-speech.html](http://watergate.info/1969/11/03/nixons-silent-majority-speech.html) Anyway, at this point you seem to be in willful denial of reality and I think that it would be unfair to others on this thread to continue this silly hijack because you can’t accept the fact that you made some rather jaw-dropping mistakes about an era you claim to be quite interested in and know lots about. Once again, I suggest if you want to continue this conversation, I recommend opening a thread in the pit and letting people on this thread getting back to discussing the use of the phrase “In God We Trust”. I’ll be happy to discuss it with you there were we won’t be constrained. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-should-in-god-we-trust-be-on-our-currency/654633)._