General Discussion

... and the argument is older than Ike himself; it goes back to the Civil War and beyond.
I am a Liberal down to my DNA, and a devout atheist, but I can see no justification for blaming Eisenhower, the last half way decent Republican ever born, for the groundswell of public outrage, as grotesquely misguided as it was, that forced Congress to mandate printing the phrase on US currency, and for the president signing it. It was an expedient solution to a tempest in a teapot generated by religious zealots who have always had their bloodstained fingers in matters of state where they did not belong. The President had far more important issues to address, and if giving these religious fanatics a bone would shut them up, it was deemed a minor sacrifice at the time, I'm sure.